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: Police on Tuesday made recoveries from Rajasthan Royals player Sreesanth's friend's house in Jaipur, sources said. Sreesanth, who has been accused of spot-fixing at least three matches of Indian Premier League's sixth edition, took the police team to Jaipur and led them to the recoveries, they added. Police recovered clothes worth Rs 1.95, bought from a Diesel showroom in Mumbai, from his friend's house, according to the sources....
06:00 PM, May 21, 2013
The Chennai Police said that they have recovered Rs 4 lakh cash from bookie Prashant, who was arrested in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal. ...
12:34 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: 6:41 pm: Sahara franchise pulls out from IPL. Sahara owns the Pune Warriors franchise in the Indian Premier League. Pune Warriors is the costliest franchise in IPL. A Sahara statement said: Sahara bought Pune franchise for a record Rs 1702 crore for 10 years. But they currently have dispute regarding the reduction of the franchise fee as initially there were 94 matches which was later reduced to 74...
11:05 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The five-day police custody of the three arrested cricketers - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - and 11 bookies who were arrested last week ends on Tuesday. They will be produced in a Delhi court. Police sources say they will ask for further custody of the three cricketers, and seven of the 11 bookies. Meanwhile, Baburao Yadav, the former Ranji cricketer detained on Monday has been...
09:50 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: More revelations continue to surface in the IPL spot-fixing scandal even as the three arrested cricketers - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - are set to be produced in court later on Tuesday. The Delhi Police has recovered Rs 20 lakh from Ajit Chandela's home while the Mumbai Police has found pictures of Sreesanth with a known bookie. They have also established links between the arrested...
07:53 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: In latest development in the IPL spot-fixing case, Delhi Police have detained Ranji Trophy player Baburao Yadav from Delhi as investigation moved forward frantically on the last day of the custody of three Rajasthan Royals' players. Delhi Police sources have told CNN-IBN that police are current interrogating Baburao, who had allegedly introduced bookie Sunil Bhatia to Ajit Chandila. Earlier in the day, police recovered Rs. 20 lakh from...
05:31 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: In latest development in the IPL spot-fixing case, Delhi Police have detained Ranji Trophy player Baburao Yadav from Delhi as investigation moved forward frantically on the last day of the custody of three Rajasthan Royals' players. Delhi Police sources have told CNN-IBN that police are current interrogating Baburao, who had allegedly introduced bookie Sunil Bhatia to Ajit Chandila. Earlier in the day, police recovered Rs. 20 lakh from...
05:31 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: BCCI's anti-corruption unit chief Ravi Sawani on Monday held a meeting with the top Delhi police officials, who are investigating into the spot-fixing scandal that has rocked the Indian Premier League. Sawani, who has been appointed by the BCCI as commissioner of inquiry to probe spot-fixing allegations, said the Cricket Board has assured the Delhi police of providing all possible assistance in their investigation. "I had a fruitful...
04:57 PM, May 20, 2013
Sreesanth and other arrested cricketers along with the bookies have been taken out of the Special Cell. Sources say the cricketers have been taken to another location where they will be recording their voice samples for a forensic test. ...
02:50 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: Tibetan student activists are protesting outside the Taj Hotel in Central Delhi and outside the Parliament Street Police Station on Monday against the visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to India. Protesters jumped a barricade and tried to break another barricade. Meanwhile at the hotel, Free Tibet activists were not allowed towards the hotel, but one activist scaled the wall of a petrol pump which is adjacent to...
12:36 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: 7:58 pm: Railways suspend former Ranji Trophy player Baburao Yadav. He was an operator in the signal and telecom division and he joined Railways via sports quota seven years ago. 6:27 pm: Rajasthan Royals suspend contracts of all three players - Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - accused in IPL spot-fixing case, pending inquiry. 6:13 pm: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) backs the...
11:25 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: BCCI officials are expected to meet Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar on Monday over the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal, according to sources. This comes as the role of other cricketers is also coming to light in the case. On Sunday, former Ranji Trophy player Manish Gundevar was arrested and the Delhi Police is now on the lookout for a sixth cricketer - Ranji Trophy player Babu Rao...
11:07 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: Even as the arrested cricketers and bookies are being interrogated in the IPL spot-fixing scandal for the fourth day on Monday, CNN-IBN has learned that Rajasthan Royals player S Sreesanth's lawyer could be applying for bail. The five-day police custody of the three cricketers - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - and the bookies ends on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the probe continues to snare more and more...
09:27 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: The net in the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal is widening each day. Police sources say the third day interrogation of the three cricketers accused of spot-fixing have revealed clear patterns of the murky deals that shamed Indian cricket. It now emerges that domestic and first class cricketers were allegedly acting as conduits for the top bookies and the players. After Jiju and Amit Singh, the Delhi Police...
07:35 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: A day before he was found dead under mysteriouos circumstances last week, Delhi Police Inspector Badrish Dutt had filed a police complaint that spot fixing was to take place in the multi-crore IPL tournament and players would under-perform during agreed upon overs in exchange for huge amounts. Dutt filed the First Information Report(FIR) in the case just a day before his and his live-in-partner's bodies were discovered in...
04:27 AM, May 20, 2013
Srinagar: Suspected Hizbul militant Liaqat Shah met his family in Kashmir on Sunday after being released from Tihar jail. He was granted bail a Delhi court which said the NIA's investigation "confirms" that there is no substantial linkage regarding his involvement in the conspiracy to carry out terror attacks in the national capital. "No substantial evidence has come up against the present petitioner till date and the prosecution NIA has...
09:59 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: As the probe into the IPL spot-fixing scandal widened, Delhi Police sources on Sunday said three more people have been arrested from Aurangabad in Maharashtra. All three will be produced in a court today, the sources added. One of the three who were arrested, Manish Gudheva, used to stay in Faridabad and practice with Ajit Chandila, who was arrested along with S Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan on spot-fixing...
05:48 PM, May 19, 2013
Sreesanth's lawyer says he will move court to get the FIRs against the cricketer quashed in the IPL spot-fixing case. ...
05:36 PM, May 19, 2013
