Mumbai: In fresh trouble for pacer Sreesanth, Mumbai police's crime branch may book him in a spot fixing case registered by it and seek his custodial interrogation, Joint Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy said on Saturday. Roy said permission of a competent court has been secured for obtaining "mirror images" of a laptop computer, an ipad and mobile phone seized from a room in a 5 star hotel in Bandra on Friday which the cricketer occupied before his arrest on Wednesday night.
The crime branch had arrested three bookies - Ramesh Vyas (52), Pandurang Kadam (41) and Ashok Vyas (32) - a day before Sreesanth and two other members of IPL team Rajasthan Royals were arrested in connection with the spot fixing scandal. Later another bookie Pravin Behra was held Bhandup.
Ninety two mobile phones, out of which 32 were exclusively used to enable Indian punters get in touch with bookies in Dubai and Pakistan through teleconferencing, 18 SIM cards, a television set and a laptop had been seized from the trio, he said. The four bookies were booked under IPC sections 465 (Punishment for forgery), 471 (Using as genuine a forged document), 420 (cheating) and relevant sections of Prevention of Gambling Act and Information Technology Act. "We are going deep into the investigation and Sreesanth might be booked in our case also here," Roy said.
Crime Branch sleuths had on Friday searched the rooms occupied by Sreesanth and Jiju Janardan, his close friend and bookie arrested
07:04 PM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai Police on Saturday arrested another bookie named Ramesh Vyas in connection with the recently surfaced spot-fixing scandal involving three Rajasthan Royals players - Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan. Police seized 92 mobile phones, 18 sim cards from Vyas, who was said to have links with bookies involved in the spot-fixing scandal. "We have arrested a bookie named Ramesh Vyas and seized 92 mobile phones, 18 sim cards...
05:10 PM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: A team of the Mumbai crime branch raided the Sofitel Hotel in Mumbai's Badra-Kurla Complex on Friday night in relation to the spot-fixing case, from where they have seized a laptop that possibly belongs to the arrested Rajasthan Royals' player Sreesanth. Though it's still not certain if the laptop is owned by Sreesanth, sources have told CNN-IBN that it is possible that Sreesanth may have contacted the bookies from...
03:14 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: BCCI President N Srinivasan came down hard on the players arrested in the spot-fixing case, telling CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar that those found guilty should be sent to jail, while vehemently denying that the Indian Premier League was fixed. "Every punishment is little for them. If these players are found guilty they should not be allowed to play cricket any more .... They should be sent to jail. This...
02:46 PM, May 18, 2013
Chennai: Jolted by the sensational IPL spot-fixing scandal, the BCCI's all-powerful working committee will hold an emergency meeting here on Sunday to discuss the fallout of the controversy and decide the future course of action against the three arrested cricketers. The BCCI is under intense pressure to take a tough stand as it is a second case of spot-fixing in the cash-rich IPL and indications are that they could even...
02:41 PM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: Even as the BCCI grapples with the IPL spot-fixing scandal, its General Manager (game development), Ratnakar Shetty, said cricket is not the only game faced with a problem as all other sports in the country are battling "crisis" situations of their own. Speaking at the India Sports Forum 36, Shetty said a clean-up is required of all the sports in the country. "Indian sports is at a very important...
02:25 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Breaking his silence on the IPL spot-fixing scandal that has maligned Indian cricket, IPL chief Rajiv Shukla has said that he "was not hiding" and the BCCI will do everything it takes "to weed out" corruption. Here are the excerpts: CNN-IBN: Your first reaction, four cricketers in police custody, answering questions from police interrogators. There's s much alleged stories about them having nexus with the under-world, what is...
01:43 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Breaking his silence on the IPL spot-fixing scandal that has maligned Indian cricket, IPL chief Rajiv Shukla has said that he "was not hiding" and the BCCI will do everything it takes "to weed out" corruption. Here are the excerpts: CNN-IBN: Your first reaction, four cricketers in police custody, answering questions from police interrogators. There's s much alleged stories about them having nexus with the under-world, what is...
01:43 PM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: The current controversy of IPL spot-fixing isn't new in the long history of controversies faced by the 20-20 format since it started in India. Now as IPL spot-fixing threatens the credibility of Indian cricket itself, it's political masters have gone into silent mode. The IPL commissioner, Union Minister Rajeev Shukla, seen at most IPL matches, gave a quote to a news agency promising strongest possible action against guilty....
10:54 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: The Indian Premier League authorities have contacted all nine of its franchises and instructed them to speak to their players and reinforce the Code of Conduct, IPL sources told CNN-IBN on Saturday. The franchises have been asked to remind all the players that they have to abide by the Code of Conduct to prevent any unwanted incident from happening. The directive has come after three Rajasthan Royals' players...
10:51 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: 6:45 pm: Delhi Police say phone transcripts show bookies threatened cricketers. 5:35 pm: Delhi Police claim Rajasthan Royal player Ajit Chandila has confessed to spot-fixing in IPL 5 during his interrogation. 4:58 pm: Rs 72000 recovered from Sreesanth's hotel room, say Mumbai Police. They also say Sreesanth did not stay with the team and stayed in a different hotel. 4:47 pm: Police are in the process of retrieving...
09:49 AM, May 18, 2013
Mumbai: Condemning the spot-fixing in IPL matches, 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani' co-stars Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone today said that the act was sad and shameful. "I am not cricket fan. It is a shameful act for cricket. Three people have been arrested... All this is not a good thing. IPL is a good platform, there are so many fans...It is a disappointing, shameful act," Ranbir told reporters here at...
09:24 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: The IPL 6 spot-fixing stain is fast spreading and sources are saying the police are now focusing on the role of underworld and more players in the scandal. There have also been reports that spot-fixing might have taken place in previous IPL editions too. The Delhi Police Special cell, which brought the scandal to the limelight, is also looking for the money trails in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and New...
08:24 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: "The Indian Premier League is a smouldering cesspit ... the sunniest of places for the shadiest people." - Robert Craddock ripped the million-dollar league apart in his column for the Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph after the spot-fixing scandal that has once again put a serious question mark on the credibility of the IPL. Writing in his column, Craddock began by taking on the aftermatch IPL parties, saying...
08:16 AM, May 18, 2013
Melbourne: In the wake of the spot-fixing scandal, the Australian media has come down heavily on the Indian Premier League, terming it the "sunniest of places for the shadiest people". Errant Indian pacer Sreesanth and two other bowlers from Rajasthan Royals team were arrested in a post-midnight operation in Mumbai Thursday by Delhi Police for spot-fixing IPL matches for payments of up to Rs 60 lakhs just for giving away...
12:32 AM, May 18, 2013
Kolkata: Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly on Friday said he felt bad for Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid who had to "contend with people like Greg Chappell and S. Sreesanth" during his captaincy stints for the country and the IPL franchisee respectively. A day after Sreesanth and two other Royals players - Ankit Chauhan and Ajit Chandila - were arrested for spot fixing, Ganguly told a television channel: "I...
12:15 AM, May 18, 2013
Melbourne: Spin legend Shane Warne says the ongoing Indian Premier Legaue spot-fixing scandal is like a "kick in the teeth" for cricket. Indian pacer Sreesanth and two other bowlers from Rajasthan Royals team were arrested in a post-midnight operation in Mumbai on Thursday by Delhi Police for spot-fixing IPL matches for payments of up to Rs 60 lakhs just for giving away pre-determined number of runs in an over. "This...
11:02 PM, May 17, 2013
Mohali: Australian cricket great Adam Gilchrist has called for life bans if the players arrested for their alleged role in spot-fixing in the ongoing IPL are found guilty. "For my mind, any player found involved in any implications where they are proven that they have handled illegal bookmakers' bets or whatever, there is no place for them in the game whatsoever ever again. It's so clear now, we are so...
10:32 PM, May 17, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals' CEO Raghu Iyer said the arrest of three of its cricketers for alleged role in spot-fixing in the ongoing IPL has caused "immense distress" to everyone associated with the franchise. "All of the Rajasthan Royal owners, management, captain, coach and players and staff are shocked and disappointed at the entire situation which has caused immense distress to us all," Iyer said in a statement. Errant Indian pacer...
10:26 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The second day of the spot-fixing crisis that threatens to tarnish the credibility of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Indian cricket saw several shocking details emerge during the interrogation of the arrested Rajasthan Royals players, Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan and Amit Singh. Here's a breakdown of Friday's major developments. Sreesanth confesses to spot-fixing, say sources After initially being defiant, Sreesanth, the fast bowler who has played...
09:29 PM, May 17, 2013
