New Delhi: Exposing the Bollywood connection in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, police on Tuesday arrested actor Vindoo Dara Singh for his alleged links with the betting mafia even as three players and seven bookies, accused of spot-fixing, were sent to five-day police custody. A hawala operator Aplesh Patel was also arrested along with Vindoo on a day when police recovered expensive clothes and a BlackBerry Z10 from the house of accused S Sreesanth's friend in Jaipur.
However, the Supreme Court of India refused to ban the IPL as a game and as a league, observing that the "problem is the lackadaisical approach of the BCCI and it must stop". The apex court directed the one man commission appointed by the The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to look into IPL irregularities and submit its report within two weeks.
As investigations gained pace, Delhi Police recovered Sreesanth's clothing worth Rs 1.95 lakh and the new BlackBerry from his friend's house in Jaipur, all bought from the spot-fixing money and all paid with cash. The police are now going through all of former Rajasthan Royals player's expenditures and are inspecting the bills.
"He bought clothes, including denims, worth Rs 1.95 lakh from Diesel Store in Mumbai. He paid the full amount in cash. We have recovered these clothes. We have documents to prove that he used the money from spot-fixing to buy these articles," an official said....
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09:24 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday remanded three players accused of spot-fixing in IPL to five-day police custody. Apart from the former Rajasthan Players Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, seven bookies were also sent to the police custody for the same time period. Sreesanth, Chandila and Chavan were arrested on May 16 on charges that they spot-fixed certain matches in IPL 6. All three players, along with several...
07:00 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of recent chit fund controversy in West Bengal, a Parliamentary committee on Friday slammed such schemes with demands for putting in place a single regulator to oversee their functioning or scrapping them altogether. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance closely scrutinised the functioning of such schemes which recently led to a series of suicides in West Bengal. Senior officials from RBI, CBDT, SEBI, Corporate Affairs...
07:40 PM, May 17, 2013
Kolkata: Chit fund company Saradha group's chief Sudipta Sen was on Thursday sent to 9-day police custody, along with two of his close aides - Debjani Mukherjee and Arvind Singh Chouhan. The Bidhan Nagar police had sought a 14-day extension of their custody. The Saradha group allegedly duped lakhs of investors in a chit fund scheme. The police have unearthed 254 bank accounts and close to 200 properties of the...
04:46 PM, May 09, 2013
Two police constables were suspended after a person held in a pick-pocketing case allegedly committed suicide at a police lock-up at Chembur. ...
12:59 PM, Mar 18, 2013
A minor boy in Odisha's Jharsuguda district was allegedly tortured and inflicted burns with cigarette butt while in police custody in connection with a theft incident. ...
06:32 PM, Feb 16, 2013
A Delhi court on Monday extended for three more days the police custody of slain liquor baron Ponty Chadha's five employees, who were arrested for allegedly forcibly entering a farmhouse here and thrashing its occupants November 17. ...
03:56 AM, Nov 27, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday handed over the custody of 26/11 key handler Abu Jundal to Gujarat ATS in connection with the 2006 train blast at Ahmedabad station in which he is alleged to be one of the main conspirators. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Parkash handed over Jundal alias Syed Zabiuddin's custody to Gujarat ATS till October 31 for his custodial interrogation in connection with the Karanawati Express...
09:40 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Nashik: Terror suspect and 26/11 handler Abu Jundal's police custody was extended till October 3 by a court in Nashik on Monday. Jundal was produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate AD Sawant amid tight security this morning. Special Public Prosecutor Ajay Misar said Jundal's interrogation so far had elicited some information about his links with terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba. Jundal is in ATS custody here since September 11 in connection with a...
03:58 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Kolkata: In a re-run of the Norway custody battle, US authorities have restricted access of an Indian couple to their one-year-old son. The US authorities took the step after the child allegedly fell from his bed and suffered injury. The child is now in hospital. The parents say a child protection team has restricted their access to the child, pending an enquiry into the incident. The father, Debashish Saha, hails...
11:27 PM, Sep 09, 2012
Mumbai: A Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court will on Monday decide whether to extend the police custody of key 26/11 handler Abu Jundal. Jundal was brought to Mumbai in July after a Delhi court gave the Maharahstra ATS his custody. The ATS, in turn, handed Jundal over to the Mumbai Crime Branch. ...
08:32 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Bangalore: The 11 terror suspects arrested on Wednesday by the Bangalore Police were on Friday sent to 14-days police custody. The profile of the accused who were arrested for alleged terror links with LeT and HuJI has shocked all. Those arrested included a DRDO engineer and a journalist from a popular English daily. Another was an MBA student. Sources say the journalist had been working for over two years in...
03:46 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Mumbai: A Mumbai court will on Tuesday hear a plea to extend the police custody of 24 people who were arrested in connection with the Azad Maidan violence case. A total of 43 people have been arrested on charges of murder and rioting during the violence that broke out. The protests had been called in to demonstrate against the Assam violence. However, within no time, the march turned violent as...
09:40 AM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Key accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda's police custody ends on Saturday. Kanda is scheduled to appear before the court later in the day. Kanda was one of those named in Geetika's suicide note and surrendered to the police last week, after absconding for 13 days. Kanda has reportedly told the police that he was not in touch with Geetika Sharma...
07:19 AM, Aug 25, 2012
New Delhi: The alleged killer of the Mumbai lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha, security guard Sajjad Ahmed was on Saturday sent to police custody till August 17. The Mumbai Crime Branch has said that private guards are now under its scanner as this was the third murder of a woman in an apartment in the city. In Pallavi's case, the crime branch is likely to book Sajjad's agency under the Security Agencies...
01:07 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Gurgaon: Ten office bearers of Maruti Suzuki Workers' Union (MSWU), including President Ram Meher and General Secretary Sarabjit Singh, who were arrested on Wednesday, have been sent to seven days police custody by a local judicial magistrate. While producing them before the court of the magistrate on Thursday, the police sought ten days custody alleging that they were the main accused in the violence at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant on...
03:52 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Mumbai: The police custody of Bollywood starlet Laila Khan's stepfather Parvez Tak, who is the prime accused in her murder case, will end on Monday. Tak, who is also a suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba, is a native of Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar town, about 230 km from Jammu. He was arrested on June 21 after Laila Khan's vehicle was found in that town. Jammu and Kashmir Police on July 7 handed Tak...
10:42 AM, Jul 23, 2012
Guwahati: A Guwahati court on Saturday remanded Gaurav Jyoti Neog, the TV channel reporter arrested on the charge of instigating an attack on a teenaged girl who was molested in the capital city of Assam, to three days of police custody. Neog, the reporter of city-based Live News channel, was remanded to custody by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate of Kamrup Siddhartha Pratim Moitra. He was arrested on Friday...
07:43 PM, Jul 21, 2012
New Delhi: The police custody of the prime accused in the missing Bollywood starlet Laila Khan case, Parvez Tak, was on Thursday extended till July 23. Tak was charged with the kidnapping and murder of Laila Khan after he said he had committed the murders and led the Mumbai Crime Branch to the starlet's Nashik bungalow where six skeletons were found. A forensic analysis report, however, is awaited. Tak, who...
03:05 PM, Jul 19, 2012
New Delhi: The police custody of the prime accused in the missing Bollywood starlet Laila Khan case, Parvez Tak, ends on Thursday. Tak was charged with the kidnapping and murder of Laila Khan after he said he had committed the murders and led the Mumbai Crime Branch to the starlet's Nashik bungalow where six skeletons were found. A forensic analysis report, however, is awaited. Tak, who was allegedly the second...
08:37 AM, Jul 19, 2012
