The Mumbai Police on Monday made it clear that they have not given ‘clean-chit’ to Gurunath Meiyappan in the betting scandal that rocked this year’s Indian Premier League. Meiyappan is the team principal of Chennai Super Kings and son-in-law of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chief N Srinivasan.
‘There is no question giving clean chit to him (Meiyappan). We have not finished with our investigation yet and are looking for custody of Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf to probe him for his role in betting scandal. We will be soon filing a chargesheet in this case,’ said Himanshu Roy, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime). Meiyappan was arrested two months back by authorities for his alleged involvement in betting during the IPL cricket matches.
The BCCI in its letter dated 28 June to Mumbai Police had informed about the formation of two member inquiry commission to probe the allegations levelled against Meiyappan. ‘We request you to kindly depute an officer of rack, who is conversant with the investigation along with relevant records to be present on 7 July, 2013, so that the commission can gather full details and record the facts as found by your department,’ said the BCCI’s letter.
‘There is no question giving clean chit to him (Meiyappan). We have not finished with our investigation yet and are looking for custody of Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf to probe him for his role in betting scandal. We will be soon filing a chargesheet in this case,’ said Himanshu Roy, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime). Meiyappan was arrested two months back by authorities for his alleged involvement in betting during the IPL cricket matches.
The BCCI in its letter dated 28 June to Mumbai Police had informed about the formation of two member inquiry commission to probe the allegations levelled against Meiyappan. ‘We request you to kindly depute an officer of rack, who is conversant with the investigation along with relevant records to be present on 7 July, 2013, so that the commission can gather full details and record the facts as found by your department,’ said the BCCI’s letter.