Spot-fixing: Sree 420 shames Indian cricket

A urban center Police team swooped in onChavan and Chandila at a complicated south city building around 3am, whereas Sreesanth was multifariously reportable to possess been picked up from the tony Carter Road space of Bandra or from another five-star building wherever he had been lured by the cops.
Eleven bookmakers were additionally nabbed in urban center, city and Ahmedabad.
Those inactive face charges of cheating and criminal conspiracy and police square measure aiming to slap them with the rigorous Maharashtra management of organized Crime Act (MCOCA), that might land them in jail with solely a slim chance of bail. 
The arrests were the end result of a month-long police work operation travel by the urban center Police, that has been in dire would like of a hit once copping endless flak for its handling of crime on the Capital’s streets and therefore the high-handedness of a number of its cops.
Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar told a packed group discussion that data had been received last month that some members of the city underworld were concerned in match-fixing within the in progress T20 league with the active participation of some unidentified conduits, bookies and players, a number of whom were primarily based within the urban center region.
The suspects were, in step with the police, after unbroken beneath constant watch and half-track through technical police work that helped  investigators assemble 'hundreds of hours of taped conversations'.
These discovered that match-fixers and bookies from urban center, Gujarat, Maharashtra and geographical region among different locations were conspiring with some players taking part within the league for spot-fixing.
Chandila was found to be concerned in spot-fixing throughout the could five match against the Pune Warriors, Sreesanth within the could nine game against Kings XI geographical region and Chavan against city Indians, that was being contend in city on weekday night.  
Chandila was allegedly secure R40 hundred thousand for freely giving fourteen or a lot of runs in his second over and paid 0.5 that quantity before, however had to come it as he forgot to signal the bookmakers in time for them to put their bets.
"Chandila had to drag up his shirt and appearance at the sky before the beginning of his second over however he didn't provide the signal," aforementioned Sanjeev Yadav,
DCP (special cell).   
"Other codes were tucking during a towel, rotating a watch and sporting a wristbad."
During the sport against Kings XI geographical region, for example, Sreesanth tucked a towel in his garment right before his second over to signal the bookies and additionally did some stretching, allegedly to provide them  ample time to put significant bets.
"Sreesanth had over up freely giving thirteen runs against the in agreement to fourteen, however was still paid R40 hundred thousand," aforementioned Yadav.
"We were gift in the least 3 matches and that we moved  in on the players once Chavan gave away fifteen runs in his second over, as he had in agreement to, last evening."
Chandila, WHO hails from Faridabad in Haryana, additionally acted as a negotiant for the bookies in their dealings with Chavan, police aforementioned.
The police underplayed speculation that criminal Dawood patriarch and his henchmen in West Pakistan, city and India were concerned.
A source, however, aforementioned that a former South Asian jock could also be one in every of the kingpins.

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standings

Team	MP	MW	ML	MT	NR	NRR	Pts
CSK	16	11	5	0	0	+0.530	22
MI	16	11	5	0	0	+0.441	22
RR	16	10	6	0	0	+0.322	20
SRH	16	10	6	0	0	+0.003	20
RCB	16	9	7	0	0	+0.457	18
K XI P	16	8	8	0	0	+0.226	16
KKR	16	6	10	0	0	-0.095	12
PW	16	4	12	0	0	-1.006	8
DD	16	3	13	0	0	-0.848	6

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