New Delhi/Mumbai:
A Delhi court will today hear the bail petitions of Indian pacer
S Sreesanth and 13 other accused, who have been arrested in connection with the IPL
spot-fixing case by the Delhi Police.
Sreesanth was arrested on May 16 from Mumbai along with team mates Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan. The three cricketers used to play for IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals.
Sreesanth, whose judicial custody also ends today, faces charges of underperforming in an IPL match played between Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab in Mohali on the behest of bookies. (
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Delhi Police alleges that Sreesanth was paid Rs 40 lakhs by bookies to give away 14 or more runs in an over in the match on May 9.
The Mumbai Police had raided a hotel on the night of May 17 and had recovered a laptop, mobile phones, iPads and Rs 72,000 in cash from the two rooms where Sreesanth and an alleged bookie Jiju Janardhan stayed. Diaries, written in English and Malayalam, were also recovered from the cricketer's room; cops said several of the entries were made by Sreesanth himself.
Meanwhile, a Mumbai Magistrate's court is also expected to pass orders on the bail petitions filed by
Gurunath Meiyappan, small-time actor Vindu Dara Singh, and two others arrested by the Mumbai Police for betting in the IPL matches.
Mr Meiyappan and Vindu had filed bail petitions soon after the metropolitan magistrate remanded them to judicial custody yesterday. Urging the court to grant them bail, their lawyers argued that their custodial interrogation was not required.
Police sources allege that Mr Meiyappan, son-in-law of
N Srinivasan who has stepped aside as BCCI chief for a month till the cricket board's internal inquiry into the case is over, used to place bets on cricket matches through Vindu, who was in direct contact with bookies. Police sources say they have transcripts of several conversations between Mr Meiyappan and Vindu where both are speaking in a code language.
The Delhi Police has so far arrested 26 people in the spot-fixing scam.