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Mumbai Police
today rejected Gurunath Meiyappan’s request for an extension to appear for
questioning. ‘He has to appear by 5pm today or else he will be declared a
fugitive’, said a determined Mumbai Police. Big Money and Big Connections did
not work for him this time. Gurunath decided to take a private plane to Mumbai
and he arrived in Mumbai this evening, though a little late. At the moment he
is being grilled by top cops.
Just before
deciding to fly to Mumbai Gurunath reportedly met his father-in-law or the BCCI
President or the CSK franchise owner or the Managing Director of India Cements
that officially owns CSK. Whatever form of N Srinivasan
he met things did indeed start to happen. Betting is illegal in India except for
on the racecourses. Even inside a racecourse a steward and his/her relatives
are not allowed to bet, because they are endowed with a lot of inside
information. Therefore, even if N Srinivasan
was interested in drawing a line between betting and match or session or spot
fixing he or his relatives are never allowed to bet on matches, because being
an insider or franchise owner or franchise official they have access to a lot
of information. This creates a situation of conflict of interest even if you
consider betting not as an offense. And based on this, his CSK that won the IPL
three times and is to play the final this year too runs a high risk of being
eliminated from the IPL. So a few things needed to happen!
India Cements
disowns Gurunath instantly saying in a statement that he is neither the CSK owner
nor CEO nor the Principal, and in actuality only a member of the team
management. Poor Gurunath then reportedly changes his net profiles seemingly in
an obsessed self-demotion drive. If Mumbai Police finally arrests Gurunath for
passing crucial match information to Vindoo Dara Singh who passes it on to the
bookies, it would be very interesting to see what N Srinivasan does or what
happens to CSK. Maintaining his silence since the conflict of interest N Srinivasan is already under tremendous pressure to
resign.
As anticipated,
custody of Vindoo Dara Singh gets extended to 28th May in a local
court in Mumbai today. More arrests are likely both by Delhi and Mumbai police. Another bookie was
arrested in Hyderabad
today.
In the meantime
crowds are still thronging the stadiums to watch the last qualifiers and the
eliminators before the final. You see, they are cricket freaks, and only
genuine cricket lovers are devastated by the fixing eliminators before the
grand finale which they fervently expect to be in their interest. Or maybe the
hapless crowds did not want to lose the money on their pre-booked tickets. How
could they expect to get a refund from a defunct system?
