JUSTICE-MUDGAL-IPL-PROBE-COMMITTEE-REPORT-final-feb-8

JUSTICE MUDGAL IPL PROBE COMMITTEE 201463(iv) Role of Chennai PoliceA. The Committee desired to verify the interrogationreport pertaining to Utham Jain @ Kitty inconnection with Q branch CID case no. 1/2013 u/S120B 468,471 IPC and the Passports Act 1967 asdeposed by G. Sampath Kumar. The Superintendentof Police Q Branch CID (Internal Security) appearedbefore the Committee at 11:00 AM on 25.01.2014.She admitted that there was a file in the Q branchpertaining to the aforesaid case. The Committee wasassured that the file would be produced at 4 PM bythe Q branch CID (Internal Security) and theinvestigating officer would be present. Thereafter, noone appeared before the Committee from Q branchat 4 PM and the concerned file was not produced.There was no information and/or anycommunication conveyed to the Committee either.B. The incident is important because the thenSuperintendent of Police of the Q Branch who hadsubmitted the interrogation report on 23.05.2013had deposed before the Committee that Shri UthamJain @ Kitty had stated about a match fixing dealconcluded on 27.04.2013 which implicated onimportant Indian player, Gurunath Meiyappan andone Shri Vikram Agarwal. The non-production of thesaid interrogation report is therefore highlysuspicious and there seems to be a deliberate