Mumbai police say, they may also book cricketer S Sreesanth in the IPL spot fixing case. Addressing a press conference in Mumbai today Joint Commissioner of police, Mumbai Himanshu Roy said that its crime branch may book him in a spot fixing case registered by it and seek his custodial interrogation. He said they are going deep into the investigation and Sreesanth might be booked in their case also in Mumbai.
He said the crime branch officials searched the two rooms in a five star hotel in Mumbai booked in the names of Sreesanth and Jiju Janardanan last night. The police have recovered a laptop, an iPad, cellphone, some cash, data card, some cricket kits, personal belongings and some diaries of Sreesanth written both in English and Malayalam.
Roy said the crime branch officials also recovered iPad, cellphone and some personal belongings from Jiju Janardanan's hotel room. Roy stated that it appeared from the searches that Sreesanth had stayed in the hotel which was not the team’s hotel in Mumbai with the bookie Ramesh Vyas. He said that the crime branch is in the process of obtaining the footage of CCTV cameras in the hotel.
Roy said that a Mumbai bookie Ramesh Vyas has been arrested along with another bookie Pankaj Shah alias Notice alias Babboo. 32 mobile phones and 18 sim cards were seized from Vyas. He said interrogation of Vyas revealed he was in touch with certain bookies whose names figure in the IPL fixing case. The joint commissioner said that the Police today have obtained permission from court to take a mirror image of the seized laptops and other gadgets for further probe.
One more bookie Pankaj Shah, who was in touch with Vyas was held from suburban Mulund today.So far the Mumbai crime branch has arrested a total six persons involved in IPL spot fixing and recovered important evidence from them .
Meanwhile, Delhi Police have despatched teams to Mumbai,Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Hyderabad to track the money trail in
the spot-fixing case in which it has arrested three cricketers–Sreesanth and fellow RR players Ajit Chandila and
Ankeet Chavan– and 11 bookies. Lawyers of all the three players have denied the involvement of the cricketers in the spot-fixing. Lawyers of all the three players have denied the involvement of the cricketers in the spot-fixing.
Chennai police say, they have zeroed-in on the local head of the bookies, who is absconding.Crime Branch CID SP S Rajeswari said they have found that one person named Prashant living in
Ayanavaram is the head of bookies involved in betting and he is missing.
