KPL match fixing: CCB files 3 chargesheets

BENGALURU: The

Central Crime Branch

(CCB) of the city police have filed three preliminary chargesheets in the

Karnataka Premiere League

(KPL) match-fixing and betting scam against 16 persons including players, team owners and bookies.


In the FIR registered with Cubbon Park police station,

Belagavi Panthers

and Ballari Tuskers owners Ali Ashfaq Thara and Arvind Reddy, respectively,

Karnataka State Cricket Association

managing committee member Sudhindra Shinde, former Karnataka cricketer CM Gautam, cricketer Abrar Kazi and bookie Maavi have been named as accused.

In another case registered in Bharathinagar police station, cricketer

Nishant Singh Shekawat

, bowling coach Vinu Prasad, cricketer M Vishwanathan, Arvind Reddy and Chandigarh bookie Manoj Kumar alias Monty have been named as accused.

The CCB’s charge-sheet in JP Nagar police station case names celebrity drummer Bhavesh Bafna, international bookie Sayyam and local bookies Jatin Sait, Kiran and Harish Kumar as accused.

Joint commissioner of police (crime) Sandeep Patil said, "In all three above cases, the preliminary chargesheets have been filed. The investigation will continue."

"We have been able to collect evidence to show how bookies operated and were able to lure players and communicate to the players to place betting,” Patil added.

Police sources said that the chargesheets provide details about places where players were lured including the parties hosted by team owners, meetings held at an apartment in Domlur and signs used to get across messages to players to act according to bookies’ directions. However, the investigation is still in progress and additional charge-sheets will be filed in the coming days, they added.

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