IPL Spot fixing: more players are likely to quiz
New Delhi: After the confession of three players in the IPL spot- fixing scandal, the investigators believe that the rot could be much deeper and wider.
Six bookies were held on Friday in Tamil Nadu in connection with another IPL betting racket and one each picked up in Mumbai and Delhi. Eleven bookies were arrested earlier along with cricketers Sreesanth, Ankit Chavan and Ajit Chandila.
Lawyers of the three cricketers denied their involvement and claimed that they were falsely implicated as part of a deep-rooted conspiracy. The role of more players whose names cropped up during interrogation of the arrested cricketers and bookies in the IPL spot-fixing scandal could be probed, police said.
Delhi Police is also likely to probe some more IPL matches in the current season even as Sreesanth, Chavan and Chandila along with 11 other arrested bookies were subjected to interrogation by its Special Cell. It has also emerged that the arrested bookies tried to lure three players, including two foreigners, with the help of Chandila, to be part of the spot-fixing racket. The players– Brad Hogg, Kevin Cooper and Siddharth Trivedi–, however, spurned their invite to join a party at Jaipur for clinching the deal, the sources said.
