New Delhi:
The Delhi Police, which spent the better part of the day painstakingly detailing an alleged underworld connection to betting and spot-fixing in cricket today, read out the transcript of what it claims is a phone conversation between don Dawood Ibrahim and alleged Pakistani bookie Javed Chotani discussing what seems like a property deal.
The police claim they have in their possession eight phone numbers that Dawood Ibrahim allegedly uses, given to them by the Home Ministry. Dawood tops a list of wanted men in India, which believes that he lives in Pakistan.
In the transcript released, Dawood purportedly greets Javed Chotani with a "Salaam" and the latter purportedly says "walekumm bhai." They then discuss a deal.
The police say they had intercepted later conversations between Chotani, also known as "Doctor" and alleged Indian bookies Tinku Mandi and Chotu Nagpur and claim that it was these phone chats that led them to stumble upon spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League.
The police have named Dawood Ibrahim and his associate Chotta Shakeel as co-accused in the betting and spot-fixing case that has rocked Indian cricket since last month. They have claimed that Dawood's gang runs illegal betting in India and the money generated is siphoned out through Hawala routes.
The Enforcement Directorate has begun investigating the Hawala angle in the scandal.
In court, the police also presented arguments to show that Test cricketer S Sreesanth, who played for the Rajasthan Royals franchise, had allegedly connived with bookies to bowl badly in an over in an IPL match in the season just concluded.
The police claim they have in their possession eight phone numbers that Dawood Ibrahim allegedly uses, given to them by the Home Ministry. Dawood tops a list of wanted men in India, which believes that he lives in Pakistan.
In the transcript released, Dawood purportedly greets Javed Chotani with a "Salaam" and the latter purportedly says "walekumm bhai." They then discuss a deal.
The police say they had intercepted later conversations between Chotani, also known as "Doctor" and alleged Indian bookies Tinku Mandi and Chotu Nagpur and claim that it was these phone chats that led them to stumble upon spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League.
The police have named Dawood Ibrahim and his associate Chotta Shakeel as co-accused in the betting and spot-fixing case that has rocked Indian cricket since last month. They have claimed that Dawood's gang runs illegal betting in India and the money generated is siphoned out through Hawala routes.
The Enforcement Directorate has begun investigating the Hawala angle in the scandal.
In court, the police also presented arguments to show that Test cricketer S Sreesanth, who played for the Rajasthan Royals franchise, had allegedly connived with bookies to bowl badly in an over in an IPL match in the season just concluded.
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