With BCCI’s working committee reaching the conclusion that Chennai Super Kings, N Srinivasan, Rajasthan Royals and Raj Kundra are not guilty of the IPL spot fixing charges, former Indian spinner Kirti Azad slammed the BCCI for not allowing the external agencies to make a strong case.
He was quite furious with the decision that was made and believes that if they are not guilty of any charge then why don’t they move to court for the defamation they had faced on the false charges of IPL betting and spot-fixing case. Azad was quoted by DNA saying, “Since it has been decided by the BCCI to not really give a report against people who were called or arrested by the Delhi Police, the BCCI should now go to the police or file a case in the Court for defamation because even Delhi Police couldn’t find anything. So we just want to know, will they go ahead to the Court for defamation? I really hope they do. They better do that.”
He finds that investigation was not the objective because the BCCI doesn’t have such mechanisms to carry out a fair probe and that’s why they are trying to close this matter without reaching any concrete conclusion. Azad was quoted by Deccan Chronicle saying, “They are not an investigating agency. This is all internal. It has become a corporate house where corporates have their own vigilance and are doing it.”
According to media reports, BCCI President-in-exile N Srinivasan is likely to be reinstated at the helm of affairs after a two-judge probe panel found no evidence against the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal which rocked the sixth edition of the sporting event.
Meanwhile the report that was submitted by the two-member probe panel consisting of former judges T Jayaram Chouta, R Balasubramanian, to the BCCI Working Committee on Sunday claimed that there was no concrete evidence against Raj Kundra and India Cements.
Meanwhile, Niranjan Shah was quoted by The Hindu saying, “There is no evidence of any wrongdoing found by the judges against Raj Kundra, India Cements and Rajasthan Royals. The report will now be forwarded to the IPL Governing Council which will take a final decision when it meets on August 2 in New Delhi.” BCCI was flummoxed with the emergence of quite a lot of controversies in a very short span of time during the IPL-6 which rocked the cricketing world.
Even the stepped aside N Srinivasan was under the line of fire after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, team principal of the Chennai Super Kings management, was arrested on charges of betting in IPL matches. He was later released on bail.
Earlier, Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra was questioned by Delhi Police and was reported to have been betting on IPL matches. The scandal broke up with the arrest of three cricketers — S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila amidst IPL 6.