22 yards of deceit continues.....

We waited for them to translate their respective promises into visible action. On May 5, 2013, before a match between Rajasthan Royals and Pune Warrior commenced at the Sawai Maan Singh Stadium, Jaipur at 08.00 PM, Ajit Chandila’s conversation with a former cricketer Amit Singh was intercepted at 05.54 PM. Ajit Chandila was asked to give away 14 runs in the second over of his spell after giving a signal. Chandila said he would pull his tucked in tee shirt out of his trousers and do as he was told. In pursuance of this plan, Ajit Chandila did give away 14 runs but forgot to give the pre-determined signal. The fixers Chandresh Patel a.k.a. Jupiter was furious as his syndicate failed to make the windfall gains it had hoped for. Even though Chandila was not caught on camera doing the bidding of the fixers, we had adequate evidence otherwise - technical, material, documentary and oral to book Chandila on completion of our investigation.

The next cricketer to commit hara-kiri was S. Sreesanth, the enfant terrible of Indian cricket. He was fixed by another syndicate, again working under the overall command and control of the D-Company, to give away 14 or more runs in an over. The match in which
Sreesanth was to perform his ‘feat’ was scheduled to be played on May 9, 20013 between Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab at Mohali. Sreesanth, the strike–bowler of Rajasthan Royals, was approached and compromised by Amit Singh, a former IPL player, and was to give away the pre-determined number of runs in the second over of his bowling spell, after giving a specific signal.

To be continued......