New Delhi, May 24: More players from different teams of IPL season 6 are involved in the spot-fixing case in which a connection of cricket and bollywood came to know after the arrest of Vindoo Dara Singh. The Delhi commissioner of Police Neeraj Kumar said that they have concrete evidence of involvement of more players other than S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan were arrested in last week for their alleged role in spot-fixing in IPL 6.
Chandila gave three cheques of Rs four lakh each, two of which bounced, after the alleged bookie-cum-fixer Sunil Bhatia insisted on repayment of the money as he did not deliver as promised under the deal, Sources said.
Investigators claimed that Bhatia paid the money to the Ajit Chandila last year and Chandila was asked to return money because he did not act according to the fixers. Chandila then gave three cheques of Rs four lakh each to the alleged bookie but the ones dates December 10, 2012 and February 10, 2013 bounced and the third one was encashed. Police have recovered the two bounced cheques from Bhatia.
A senior Police official said, “It was arrested player Babu Rao Yadav who introduced Chandila to Bhatia. After getting a hattrick last year, it was clear that he would play more matches. So the bookie approached him this time again.”
The official also said, “Sreesanth consumed alcohol and fought with the coach after he was excluded from the team after the May nine match. For this, he was suspended from the team. That was why he was not staying in Hotel Trident where players were staying. He separately booked into Hotel Safotil.”
Bureau Report
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