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JUSTICE MUDGAL IPL PROBE COMMITTEE 201457enforcement agencies find a level playing field to eradicatecorruption in cricket.II.ROLE OF POLICEThere are certain aspects of investigations conducted byvarious police authorities which have drawn the attentionof this Committee and is required to be highlighted.(i) Role of Crime Branch, Mumbai PoliceA. In course of interception of phone calls betweenbookies, punters as well as foreign bookies inPakistan etc, the Mumbai Police had unearthedreferences made by bookies etc. to connections ofsome Indian and foreign players with bettingactivities. Officers of the Mumbai Police indicatedthat investigations into such information were notcarried out because there were no corroborations. Itappears further from the deposition of the officers ofMumbai Police that these informations were nottaken forward in connection with such namesbecause in view of the considered opinion of theMumbai Police the bookies were simply “boasting” toincrease their own influence. This position of theMumbai Police is difficult to accept. If thetranscripts of such interceptions revealed anycriminality, and betting in sports within Maharastrabeing a criminal offence, investigation ought to haveensued and corroboration was required to be found,
JUSTICE MUDGAL IPL PROBE COMMITTEE 201458if available, through such investigations. Theapproach of the Mumbai police appears very curiousand more so keeping in mind the abrupt voluntarystatement of the Mumbai Police before theCommittee that their focus in the said investigationwas Gurunath Meiyappan.B. On being questioned by the Committee based onearlier media reports, it was admitted by theMumbai Police that the I.PAD of Vindoo Dara Singhwas seized and the deleted data therein was soughtto be retrieved through forensic examination. Thisdata would definitely reveal the various contacts andpersons who were betting through Vindoo DaraSingh, who was already referred to in the CBIinvestigation report in 2000. Curiously, the MumbaiPolice has not charged anyone else except GurunathMeiyappan for laying bets in IPL matches throughRamesh Vyas, Vindoo Dara Singh and others. It isabsolutely unbelievable that Mumbai Police hasfailed to locate all such other persons who wereinvolved in this betting racket. It is inconceivablesuch a huge betting syndicate would function for thebenefit of only one person, Gurunath Meiyappan.The Mumbai Police has either been extremely naivein pursuing their investigation or they havedeliberately not investigated the entire bettingoperations. Possibly, their statement that Gurunath
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