New Delhi: 11:13 am: The questioning of the arrested cricketers and bookies in the IPL spot-fixing scandal is continuing for the fourth day on Monday. Special Police Commissioner and Joint Police Commissioner are expected to confront the players with former Ranji Trophy player Manish Gundevar who was arrested on Sunday.
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 Yadav. The police say he is a former railways player.
Meanwhile, the arrested Rajasthan Royals cricketers - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - are being interrogated for the fourth day on Monday along with the bookies. Their five-day custody ends on Tuesday....
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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: Even as Law Minister Kapil Sibal proposed a new law to fight fixing in sports, his Cabinet colleagues Rajiv Shukla and Ajay Maken spoke in two different voices over the exemption of BCCI from the Right to Information Act. Union Minister Ajay Maken, who earlier held the sports portfolio, wants the BCCI brought under the Right to Information Act. He tweeted, "BCCI should agree to come under RTI....
07:56 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
New Delhi: The IPL spot-fixing net is getting bigger by the day. A third day of interrogation of the three Rajasthan Royals cricketers S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, accused of spot-fixing, have revealed clear patterns of the murky deals that have shamed Indian cricket. It now emerges that domestic and first class cricketers were allegedly acting as conduits for top bookies and players. After Jiju and Amit Singh,...
09:07 PM, May 19, 2013
Karachi: Pakistan Cricket Board chief Zaka Ashraf has refused to comment on the spot-fixing scandal that has hit the Indian Premier League, referring to it as an internal matter of the BCCI. The PCB chief said that his board had taken a number of steps to prevent its players from getting involved in corrupt practises. "I can assure you that even when our team plays in the Champions Trophy next...
06:53 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Kerala Cricket Association secretary TC Mathew on Sunday revealed that Indian pacer Sreesanth was indeed very close to Jiju Janardhanan, and called him the "satellite" of the tainted speedster. "He [Jiju] is always around Sreesanth as a satellite. We used to see him around Sreesanth not only in Kerala but in abroad also. When Sreesanth moves in the city he is always seen in his car. May be...
06:47 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: In the wake of the spot-fixing scandal in IPL, Law Minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday proposed a law to tackle fixing and other illegal activities in sports in India. Sibal spoke to Sports Minister Jitendra Singh and proposed to plug the loopholes that help the accused to escape punishment. Sibal, who recently took charge of the Law Ministry, made the proposal to ensure strict punishment for the guilty....
06:24 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
Muzaffarnagar: Days after three Rajasthan Royal cricketers were arrested in the spot-fixing scandal, police on Sunday claimed to have busted two betting rackets relating to IPL matches in separate raids with the arrest of six persons here and recovered around Rs two lakh in cash. Acting on a tip-off, the crime branch of the district police raided a houses in Gandhi Colony in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday and arrested three...
05:06 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: The cricketers and the bookies in custody in IPL spot-fixing case are being interrogated for the third day in the national capital on Sunday. Sources are telling CNN-IBN that Sreesanth resisted arrest by the Delhi Police. Sources also say Sreesanth was in a sedan when the police approached him in an SUV and he reportedly threw his phone at them. He mellowed after seeing the bookies in police...
04:50 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police has asked hotels in Mumbai, Chandigarh, Kolkata and Hyderabad to provide CCTV footage to scan meetings of the three arrested cricketers with bookies in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal. Police is also planning to seek permission for collecting voice samples of the players - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - arrested last Thursday from Mumbai along with 11 bookies. Sources said that the...
04:19 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: S Sreesanth, who has been arrested in connection with the IPL 6 spot-fixing scandal, had resisted arrest by Delhi Police in Mumbai, sources said on Sunday. The cricketer was reportedly in a sedan when police approached him in an SUV. The cricketer, according to the sources, threw his phone at the policemen, who tried to arrest him, and asked them to call up the Maharashtra Chief Minister and...
03:35 PM, May 19, 2013
Chennai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), after its emergency meeting in Chennai on Sunday, has said it will not hesitate to take swift and strong action against any player found guilty of malpractice or illegal activities in the IPL or otherwise. While maintaining that the BCCI was "handicapped" when it comes to control over bookies, the board president N Srinivasan said the BCCI has decided to...
01:36 PM, May 19, 2013
BCCI on Sunday will hold an emergency meet in Chennai to discuss the spot-fixing scandal in IPL 6. Three players of Rajasthan Royals - Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were arrested on Wednesday after Delhi Police broke out Spot-fixing scandaL. The Special Commissioner, Special cell, SN Srivastava has told CNN-IBN that BCCI is in touch with the Delhi police. ...
10:20 AM, May 19, 2013
Mumbai: The noose is tightening around arrested cricketer S Sreesanth as the Mumbai Police has seized his mobiles, laptop, data cards from the hotel room in which he was staying in Mumbai. As sources say that the Mumbai Police might seek Sreesanth's custody of interrogation, the Delhi Police Special Cell - which is investigating the case - will now have to pursue its Mumbai counterparts to share the evidence with...
08:31 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) may hand life bans to the tainted quartet of S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan and Amit Singh in a meeting in Chennai on Sunday. Sreesanth, Chandila, Chavan have played several matches for Rajasthan Royals this season, while Amit represented the Jaipur-based IPL team for the first few seasons. Sreesanth, Chandila and Chavan have reportedly confessed to spot-fixing in...
08:25 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Under fire ever since IPL spot-fixing scandal broke out, Board Of Control For Cricket In India (BCCI) is now facing tough questions about brand IPL and its credibility and sanctity in the world of cricket. CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar interviews BCCI's President N Srinivasan. Here's the transcript of the full interview: Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate and a special interview with the president of the BCCI...
11:59 PM, May 18, 2013
