Here are a few questions for the Delhi Police Commissioner Shri Neeraj Kumar who seems to have made his mind up about the arrested players and branded them as match fixers and common criminals who have brought the glorious game of cricket into utter disrepute.......
* Since when has cricket become such an exact science that the bookie and cricketer reach an understanding between themselves about conceding 13 or 14 runs in an over and somehow manage to concede the very same, was the police commissioner pulling the strings behind the scenes and making sure that the bowler conceded the exact number of runs promised so that he could build up a case based on this flimsy premise........
* The most skilful and seemingly adroit batsmen can make a mistake and miscue or mistime a rank long hop or then simply pop up a catch in the air of a seemingly innocuous delivery; while a bowler can ensnare a batsman and dismiss him off a full toss and half volley that any two bit batsman would have dispatched to the boundary with utter disdain nine times out of ten; did the commissioner take all these facts into consideration before castigating aspersions on the integrity of the three players in custody.........
* The Delhi police has been patting itself on it's own back and blatantly highlighting the fact that they have managed to extract self incriminating confessions from the supposedly tainted trio and the media has been shouting itself hoarse about the fact that these cricketers have confessed to their crimes; aren't these two notables aware of the fact that these confessions are not even worth the paper they are written on as they have been extracted under duress in the absence of a judicial magistrate, these so called confessions can at best give the police a few pointers about the direction in which their investigations into the case should proceed but mean little else besides.......
* Conflicting and contradictory versions have been emerging from time to time regarding the involvement of other cricketers and franchises; the names of Messrs Shaun Tait and Bradley Hogg were doing the rounds till last night and the names of Brad Hodge as well as Owais Shah have hit the headlines this morning, why don't the Delhi police sources come clean on the involvement of other players and franchises once and for all and end this meaningless game and charade of musical chairs......
* The only evidence that the Delhi police has to show thus far for it's efforts in this regard are snatches of recorded conversations and wire transcripts of intercepted conversations amongst the lead players in this unfolding saga, these transcripts and taped conversations prove precious little, have the Delhi police sources submitted the tapes and other discs on which these conversations were recorded to a certified and recognised forensic laboratory for further investigation and confirmation, have voice samples of all those arrested been forwarded to the very same laboratory for the process of identification, authentication and elimination.......
* Has the very same forensics laboratory also certified the fact and issued a certificate that the tapes, wire taps, transcripts and so on and so forth have not been tampered with and are snatches of a conversation in progress between the detainees as no court worth it's salt will admit these above mentioned transcripts etc by way of evidence unless the same have been duly certified by an accredited forensics laboratory.......
* And last but not the least why are all and sundry so very interested in branding these hapless cricketers as culprits, disgrace to the game, traitors and so on and so forth; let their guilt and complicity be proved in a court of law beyond all reasonable doubt and then you can have your fifteen minutes of fame and more by calling them every conceivable name that comes to your mind and tongue........
Pray, wait until then and show a little patience and forebearing as one is always rewarded for his sense of patience and equanimity and not for his impatience and impudence as in the present case........
* Since when has cricket become such an exact science that the bookie and cricketer reach an understanding between themselves about conceding 13 or 14 runs in an over and somehow manage to concede the very same, was the police commissioner pulling the strings behind the scenes and making sure that the bowler conceded the exact number of runs promised so that he could build up a case based on this flimsy premise........
* The most skilful and seemingly adroit batsmen can make a mistake and miscue or mistime a rank long hop or then simply pop up a catch in the air of a seemingly innocuous delivery; while a bowler can ensnare a batsman and dismiss him off a full toss and half volley that any two bit batsman would have dispatched to the boundary with utter disdain nine times out of ten; did the commissioner take all these facts into consideration before castigating aspersions on the integrity of the three players in custody.........
* The Delhi police has been patting itself on it's own back and blatantly highlighting the fact that they have managed to extract self incriminating confessions from the supposedly tainted trio and the media has been shouting itself hoarse about the fact that these cricketers have confessed to their crimes; aren't these two notables aware of the fact that these confessions are not even worth the paper they are written on as they have been extracted under duress in the absence of a judicial magistrate, these so called confessions can at best give the police a few pointers about the direction in which their investigations into the case should proceed but mean little else besides.......
* Conflicting and contradictory versions have been emerging from time to time regarding the involvement of other cricketers and franchises; the names of Messrs Shaun Tait and Bradley Hogg were doing the rounds till last night and the names of Brad Hodge as well as Owais Shah have hit the headlines this morning, why don't the Delhi police sources come clean on the involvement of other players and franchises once and for all and end this meaningless game and charade of musical chairs......
* The only evidence that the Delhi police has to show thus far for it's efforts in this regard are snatches of recorded conversations and wire transcripts of intercepted conversations amongst the lead players in this unfolding saga, these transcripts and taped conversations prove precious little, have the Delhi police sources submitted the tapes and other discs on which these conversations were recorded to a certified and recognised forensic laboratory for further investigation and confirmation, have voice samples of all those arrested been forwarded to the very same laboratory for the process of identification, authentication and elimination.......
* Has the very same forensics laboratory also certified the fact and issued a certificate that the tapes, wire taps, transcripts and so on and so forth have not been tampered with and are snatches of a conversation in progress between the detainees as no court worth it's salt will admit these above mentioned transcripts etc by way of evidence unless the same have been duly certified by an accredited forensics laboratory.......
* And last but not the least why are all and sundry so very interested in branding these hapless cricketers as culprits, disgrace to the game, traitors and so on and so forth; let their guilt and complicity be proved in a court of law beyond all reasonable doubt and then you can have your fifteen minutes of fame and more by calling them every conceivable name that comes to your mind and tongue........
Pray, wait until then and show a little patience and forebearing as one is always rewarded for his sense of patience and equanimity and not for his impatience and impudence as in the present case........
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