BCCI chief probe officer, Ravi Sawani met the Delhi police Commissioner and assured of all cooperation in the cricket scam investigation and requests the Indian Franchise, to which the players belong to file a police report on Monday.
Board of Control for Cricket in India's chief probe officer, Ravi Sawani met Delhi police commissioner Neeraj Kumar and assured him of all cooperation in the investigation of the cricket scam.
"The BCCI has assured the Delhi police of all its cooperation. I have also told him about the intention of the BCCI to request the Rajasthan royal franchise to file an FIR (First information report) with the Delhi police because the three players who have violated the code are also guilty under the criminal court and the affected party is technically is Rajasthan Royals so they would also be filing a complaint with the Delhi police," said Sawani on Monday in New Delhi.
Former India test bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two other players were arrested along with 11 bookmakers recently on suspicion of spot fixing in the country's ongoing Twenty20 league. The cricket board immediately suspended the trio, who have been accused of taking money to concede a certain number of runs in a particular over.
Legal sports betting in India, is confined to horse racing while illegal betting syndicates thrive in the absence of a law dealing specifically with such corruption in sport.
Media estimates put the amount gambled on India's top cricket Twenty20 competition at $427 million in 2009.
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Spot fixing is manipulation of individual incidents within a match, which may not affect the outcome of the contest, most famously exposed in a London trial and jailing of three Pakistan cricketers in 2011.
Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and teammates Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were jailed in Britain for their role in a spot-fixing scandal relating to a test match against England at Lord's in August 2010.
The International Cricket Council subsequently banned the three players for a minimum of five years.