Radiant Sports Management, a company owned by Khetarpal in the 1980s and '90s, was hit hard by the match-fixing scandal of 1999 during which he became a subject of investigation in both India and England.
The fixing controversy erupted when former England cricketer Chris Lewis made the sensational claim in a British newspaper that Khetarpal had told him that he had approached three England players to fix matches. The then New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming had also accused him of offering a bribe to fix matches, an accusation that was categorically denied by Khetarpal.
Over two decades have passed since then and he claims that his name has been cleared by Scotland Yard after investigations.
"I spoke to Fleming to discuss the organisation of a benefit series in Mohali but he misunderstood and claimed that I was trying to bribe him," said Khetarpal.
"All hell broke loose, there were raids at my offices. I was on the front pages of newspapers with stories about how I was involved in match-fixing. It went on for days. At that time, I made a film Shirdi Sai Baba and my life changed for the better," he recalled.
"That film got me a President's Award for national integration and I realised that life was to change big time for me," he said. MORE