Indian pacer S Sreesanth has now been nailed down in the matter of IPL spot-fixing as on Tuesday, Delhi Police recovered some designer clothes worth Rs 1.95 lakh which he bought from Diesel Store in Mumbai along with a smartphone worth Rs 42000 that he gave to his girlfriend as a gift from the money he got from fixing. Some more charges including the “criminal breach of trust” has been levelled on him.
As per the recent reports of Times of India, Police said “We have recovered the clothes bought by Sreesanth from the Diesel Store in Mumbai along with the Blackberry Z10 model costing around Rs. 42,000 which he gifted to his girlfriend. He made all the payments in cash for all the things he bought. His girlfriend has nothing to do with his dealings as she was unaware of it. Apart from that, yesterday we recovered Rs. 20 lakh from Chandila's cricket kit from his aunt's house in Haryana's Palwal”.
Police was quoted by Hindustan Times saying, “We have collected voice samples of nine of the 18 accused, including that of Sreesanth, Ankit Chavan and Chandila. They are also in the process of taking handwriting samples of the three players.”
Police have also arrested 18 people for their alleged roles in spot-fixing in IPL matches along with the former domestic player Babu Rao Yadav who was quizzed for his links with Ajit Chandila. This scandal has rocked the cricketing world in the worst possible way.
Official made it clear that the voice samples of Sreesanth were collected because he was using the phone of Jiju Janardhan, who was the conduit between the cricketer and bookies, and they had to match his voice. Policemen went onto say that, "Sreesanth was also not in touch with Chandila. We do not have any phone conversations between the two players talking about fixing matches.”
According to the recent reports in Indian Express, investigators were quoted saying, “We have also added Section 409 (criminal breach of trust) to the case against 18 players and bookies arrested in the scandal after IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals filed a formal complaint with Delhi Police. They sought registration of case against the players under Section 420 (cheating), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 406 (criminal breach of trust) while adding 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent).”