Another key man in the IPL spot- fixing case who was close to bookies Tinku Mandi and Ramesh Vyas has been arrested by Delhi Police.
Chandra Prakash Jain alias Chandresh Jain (35) who accepted bets by the name of Jupiter is the 30th arrest in the case so far, police said today.
"Chandresh Jain alias Jupiter was arrested from Jaipur yesterday morning. He was presented before a court in the evening in Delhi which has sent him to police custody for five days. This is the 30th arrest in the case," Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) S N Srivastava told PTI.
According to the police, Jain hails from Rajasthan. His grandfather was a jeweller in Ajmer while his father used to exchange old, torn Indian currencies to earn his livelihood.
After Jain completed his graduation in 2007, his father sent him to work with one Ram Babu who was in construction work. Other then being a builder, Babu was also a punter.
"Instead of learning construction work, Jain learnt betting from Babu. Later, he came in contact with Ramesh Vyas - a key bookie in the spot-fixing case - and started accepting bets in association with three other bookies - Arvind, Uday and Rajesh," said Srivastava.
Through Vyas, he got a lot of customers, some even from Pakistan and Dubai. Later he had a dispute with Arvind, Uday and Rajesh after which he came back to Jaipur and started operating from there and came in contact with Delhi-based bookie Ashwini Aggrawal, known as 'Tinku Mandi', he said.
"During IPL-2012, Jaipur Crime Branch raided his house at Vaishali Nagar after which he went underground for three-four months. But, in December 2012 he again started his betting business from a farmhouse of one of his friends in Jaipur," the officer said.
From March, he started working with Mandi on partnership basis. When police arrested Tinku Mandi, he too was in Delhi but managed to escape. Since then he frequently changed his hideouts from Agra, Ujjain and Nagpur. Since the last two weeks, he was hiding in a hotel in Jaipur, police said.
"Jupiter was in touch with Salman alias Master and Javed Chootani - bookies based in Pakistan and Dubai who reported directly to Dawood - through Ramesh Vyas. His name has featured in a number of phone intercepts and various confessional statements of persons who are already under custody. He is a big-time fixer," said Shrivastava.
Delhi Police had recently named underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel in its charge sheet filed in the spot-fixing case.
In the 6000-page long charge sheet, Delhi Police also named Rajasthan Royals players S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan among 39 others as accused in the scandal unearthed during IPL 6.
