New Delhi: The Delhi Police today filed a chargesheet naming underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Chhota Shakeel as the fountainheads of the fixing and betting racket in India,two months after the arrest of three cricketers for spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League.
This is the first time in more than a decade that Dawood has been named as an accused in any case. The 6,000-page charge sheet names a total of 39 persons as accused for offences of cheating and conspiracy under sections of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). 10 of the accused are absconding.
Other accused in the case include Rajasthan Royals cricketers S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan, who were arrested in May on the basis of phone conversations and footage of IPL matches where they were caught giving predetermined signals to bookies.
While Sreesanth and Chavan are out on bail, Chandila remains in custody.The chargesheet includes phone conversations, voice sample reports, forensic reports and confessional statements.
The chargesheet was filed just days before N Srinivasan returns to the post of BCCI president, which he was forced to temporarily relinquish following allegations of betting and fixing against his son-in-law, Gurunath Meiyappan.
