A Delhi court today supplied copy of the charge sheet to two of the accused in the 2000 match fixing scandal case involving former South African captain Hansie Cronje and five others, after the duo appeared before it.
Following the directions of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Bansal, the Delhi Police supplied the charge sheet to Delhi-based bookies Rajesh Kalra and Sunil Dara alias Bittu, who are presently out on bail in connection with the case and appeared in the court complying with its summons.
The court, however granted exemption to accused Kishan Kumar, brother of slain T-Series founder Gulshan Kumar, from personal appearance for today.
Kumar filed an application through his counsel saying he could not appear as he was busy in a personal engagement which was fixed before the court had decided today's date.
The court allowed Kumar's plea for the day and issued fresh summons to him for February 4, 2014, when scrutiny of documents filed with the charge sheet will also be take place.
It directed the accused to apprise it before the next date of hearing if there is any deficiency in documents.
The court had on July 23 taken cognizance of the charge sheet filed by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police against six persons, including former South African captain Hansie Cronje, in which it said he was paid Rs 1.2 crore in two instalments for fixing matches 13 years back.
The names of Cronje's compatriot cricketers Herschelle Gibbs and Nicky Boje were left out from the charge sheet.
The police, in its 93-page charge sheet, has named Cronje, Kalra, Dara, Kumar, London-based bookie Sanjeev Chawla and Manmohan Khattar as accused in the case and has chargesheeted them for offences of cheating and criminal conspiracy under the IPC.
The court has abated the proceedings against Cronje, who was indicted by the Kings Commission of Inquiry in South Africa, in view of his death in a plane crash in 2002.
