New Delhi: A city court on Monday granted bail to IPL spot fixing accused players S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and 17 others. Ruling that there was no reason for believing that the accused were guilty under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) at this stage, Additional Sessions Judge Vinay Kumar Khanna said there was prima facie "no sufficient material" against the accused to establish their "nexus" with organised crime syndicate.

The accused were granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 with one surety of the like amount.

"There are allegations of betting by bookies and fixing by players for benefiting the syndicate. After probing into the matter deeply and going into the materials placed before the court, this court finds that there is no sufficient material on record to establish that there is a nexus of accused with the organised crime syndicate," the judge said.

Besides the 19 who were granted bail by the court, six others are now in judicial custody till June 18 while one of the alleged bookies, Ramesh Vyas, is in police custody till June 18. Chandila and six others have not yet applied for bail.

Apart from the two cricketers, the court granted bail to bookies Ashwani Aggarwal, Amit Gupta, Ajay Goyal, Sunil Saxena, Bhupender Nagar, Chandresh Patel, Dipit Garg, Kiran Dole, Manan Bhat, Mohd Yahiya, Nitin Jain, Jiju Janardhan, Ramakant Aggarwal and Syed Durry Ahmed.