Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Anti Corruption Unit (ACU) will keep an eye on match-fixing accused Sanjeev Chawla who was brought to New Delhi on Wednesday after he was handed over from London.
“Our officers who are in Delhi will be associated with it and they will also follow up. If they (Delhi Police) permit us, we would like to talk to Sanjeev Chawal. If we get permission, we will definitely talk to him. The officer we have in Delhi was associated with this case and he is now with BCCI which will help us,” ACU chief Ajeet Singh told ANI.
While he was asked if both Delhi Police and BCCI will look into the matter, Singh said they have no information regarding this as of now. On Thursday, Sanjeev Chawla was sent to the police custody for 12 days by Delhi’s Patiala House Court.
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“We cannot say. It is up to the Delhi Police. He is in their custody and we cannot take it for granted but we contact them definitely,” Singh said.
“First of all, he has to be interrogated at length to unearth the whole conspiracy. All accused involved in India or abroad are to be identified. He has to be taken to Cochin, Jamshedpur, Faridabad, Vadodra, Nagpur Mumbai and Bangalore for investigation. Detailed interrogation and confrontation with other accused persons is to be carried out to completely unearth the match-fixing conspiracy,” the Delhi Police’s Crime Branch had told the court earlier.
However, the match-fixing racket was traced by the Delhi police in 2000 where Sanjeev Chawla was the main culprit in the match-fixing in India-South Africa cricket series in 2000.
“The other two accused were Sanjeev Chawla and Manohar Khattar. Khattar is in the US as per our information,” Naik had said.
“The accused Sanjeev Kumar Chawla played the main conduit in the above match-fixing and while committing the above-said crime he stayed in the same hotels where the teams were staying. He had given money, mobile phone and also transferred money in accounts of accused Hansei Cronje. He was in regular contact with other three accused persons and many others,” the Crime Branch had shared the court.
However, Public Prosecutors Atul Kumar Shrivastava and Anil Paswan had told the court that the accused is needed to be confronted with evidence related to the match-fixing of five ODI matches and Test matches in 2000.
