Srinivasan refuses to blame the IPL; Shukla promises strong punishments.
Arrested bookmakers and Indian cricketers, including Test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth among them, are brought …
Probing deeper into the IPL spot-match fixing scam, Mumbai police have
seized the mobiles, iPhones, laptops, data cards and other personal
belongings of cricketer S. Sreesanth and his relative-cum-bookie Jiju
Janardhan, a top police officer said here Saturday.
Cash to the tune of Rs. 72,000 was also recovered from his room..
Besides,
the Mumbai police are also scanning the diaries of Sreesanth which
contain significant information pertaining to the scam, Joint Police
Commissioner (Crime) Himanshu Roy, who is spearheading the
investigations, told media persons here.
Police also searched the room in a five-star hotel in south Mumbai
where Sreesanth and Janardhan had checked in after making a booking
through Tamarind Tours & Travels, he said.
"We are also scanning the CCTV footage of the hotel
to find out who they met during their stay there, their movements, and
visitors who called on them," Roy said, adding that the Mumbai police
will reconstruct the sequence of events in the hotel May 14/15 till
Sreesanth's arrest by Delhi Police.
I AM NOT HIDING: SHUKLA
Breaking his silence on the spot-fixing issue, IPL chief and BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla said he was not in hiding and expressed sadness at the spot-fixing scandal.
"We are all very sad. The league was going fantastically and suddenly this happened," Shukla told CNN-IBN. "BCCI and IPL will cooperate with Delhi Police and those found guilty shall be severely punished. Whatever is needed to weed out such elements will be done by BCCI."
Shukla defended the ICC's anti-corruption unit whose job it is to curtail corruption in cricket. "ACSU along with the BCCI, is engaged to control these things. Wrong to say that ACSU has failed as they have their own limitations," he said.
He pinned the blame on players' greed: "The players are paid heavy money and then this greed. This menace has to be stopped."
SRINIVASAN DEFENDS IPL
BCCI president and Chennai Super Kings owner N. Srinivasan continued to defend the integrity of the controversy-hit IPL saying he doesn't have to "personally apologise" for the wrong-doing of the tainted cricketers.
"See, IPL has not let down the people," Srinivasan said. "It is these dirty cricketers that have done it. These people who have indulged in these kinds of activities. They are the ones. We feel bad.
"I don't have to personally apologise. So long as people know I condemn it. That I don't want it. That I resent the fact that I have to sit here and answer this. We are honest people."
"For the last two days everybody has asked me the same question," he said. "'IPL is damaged. IPL's credibility is gone. IPL is untenable.' It is the biggest tournament in the world. We should be proud of it."
"The point I am making is, everybody is berating the IPL, saying IPL is finished. All I am saying is, I acknowledge the fact that three crickets have done this.
"Naturally it will have some impact. What impact, how much it is, here your view is different than mine.
"Not only does it worry me... The fact is, I have to sit here and listen to people saying IPL is fixed. IPL as a whole is not. Just three people have done something wrong. It doesn't mean the whole IPL is bad. Which is what you are trying to make it out to be."
I AM NOT HIDING: SHUKLA
Breaking his silence on the spot-fixing issue, IPL chief and BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla said he was not in hiding and expressed sadness at the spot-fixing scandal.
"We are all very sad. The league was going fantastically and suddenly this happened," Shukla told CNN-IBN. "BCCI and IPL will cooperate with Delhi Police and those found guilty shall be severely punished. Whatever is needed to weed out such elements will be done by BCCI."
Shukla defended the ICC's anti-corruption unit whose job it is to curtail corruption in cricket. "ACSU along with the BCCI, is engaged to control these things. Wrong to say that ACSU has failed as they have their own limitations," he said.
He pinned the blame on players' greed: "The players are paid heavy money and then this greed. This menace has to be stopped."
SRINIVASAN DEFENDS IPL
BCCI president and Chennai Super Kings owner N. Srinivasan continued to defend the integrity of the controversy-hit IPL saying he doesn't have to "personally apologise" for the wrong-doing of the tainted cricketers.
"See, IPL has not let down the people," Srinivasan said. "It is these dirty cricketers that have done it. These people who have indulged in these kinds of activities. They are the ones. We feel bad.
"I don't have to personally apologise. So long as people know I condemn it. That I don't want it. That I resent the fact that I have to sit here and answer this. We are honest people."
"For the last two days everybody has asked me the same question," he said. "'IPL is damaged. IPL's credibility is gone. IPL is untenable.' It is the biggest tournament in the world. We should be proud of it."
"The point I am making is, everybody is berating the IPL, saying IPL is finished. All I am saying is, I acknowledge the fact that three crickets have done this.
"Naturally it will have some impact. What impact, how much it is, here your view is different than mine.
"Not only does it worry me... The fact is, I have to sit here and listen to people saying IPL is fixed. IPL as a whole is not. Just three people have done something wrong. It doesn't mean the whole IPL is bad. Which is what you are trying to make it out to be."
Ankeet Chavan (centre)
'CHAVAN DID IT OUT OF FEAR'
Mid Day reports that Ankeet Chavan, the left-arm spinner who has been arrested for spot-fixing, was forced into illegal activities, according to Chavan's friend.
“Ankeet was influenced and forced into doing it. He was also threatened and was repeatedly getting calls from the bookies which he initially avoided,” said a close friend of Chavan.
“He made a mistake by eventually falling into the trap. It was not greed. It was fear,” he added. Apparently, player-turned-bookie Amit Singh, who is also in police custody, is on Chavan’s BBM list.
BOOKIES SUPPLIED CALL GIRLS?
'CHAVAN DID IT OUT OF FEAR'
Mid Day reports that Ankeet Chavan, the left-arm spinner who has been arrested for spot-fixing, was forced into illegal activities, according to Chavan's friend.
“Ankeet was influenced and forced into doing it. He was also threatened and was repeatedly getting calls from the bookies which he initially avoided,” said a close friend of Chavan.
“He made a mistake by eventually falling into the trap. It was not greed. It was fear,” he added. Apparently, player-turned-bookie Amit Singh, who is also in police custody, is on Chavan’s BBM list.
BOOKIES SUPPLIED CALL GIRLS?
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