Is team India skipper and the heart throb of millions M.S.Dhoni embroiled in the unsavoury and infamous match fixing scandal that is currently unfurling in the Supreme Court; well, the answer unfortunately lies in the affirmative if a secret report handed over to the Supreme Court by the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee is to believed.........
Yes, you did indeed hear it right a secret report submitted to the Supreme Court by the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee that was expressly constituted to explore the murky world of the IPL match fixing and betting scandal has submitted a secret report in a sealed cover quoting a top Tamil Nadu cop who utters the name of one M.S.Dhoni in his deposition before the very same committee........
Superintendent of Police G. Sampath Kumar's statement/deposition before the Mudgal committee extensively cites/quotes a bookie code named Kitty who has alleged that BCCI President N. Srinivasan's roguish son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan and M.S. Dhoni were indeed part of an unholy nexus that did more than their fair share of match fixing in the previous editions of the IPL.........
Confirming or reiterating the contents of his statement, Kumar confirms the fact that he had indeed given the Mudgal committee a signed statement about an exhaustive investigation conducted by him pertaining to the match fixing episodes of IPL season 6 when he was an integral part of the state police's internal security division last year........
"We (my team of of fellow officers and me) were intensively investigating a fake passport racket when we happened/chanced upon some rather startling information pertaining to the match fixing/betting scandal; we then proceeded to interview a bookie code named Kitty who repeatedly mentioned the names of Dhoni and Meiyappan repeatedly during the course of his interrogation"............
"He specifically mentioned or cited the case of a match held in Jaipur on May 12,2013 featuring the Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings IPL franchises and said that Meiyappan had bid a huge amount of money against his own team and Dhoni had agreed in principle to ensure that his team would not score more than 140 runs during the course of their innings".............
Chennai Super Kings ended up with a tally of 141/4 after 20 overs despite being 90/1 at the end of 11 overs; both Dhoni as well as Suresh Raina were dismissed for single digit scores during the course of their innings; Rajasthan Royals successfully chased down the Chennai Super Kings total in 17 overs or so and Meiyappan made a killing at the turnstiles", he concludes..........
He also candidly mentioned the fact that he had recommended exhaustive and expeditious investigations into the claims made by the bookie by an independent and impartial investigative agency, but was transferred out of the internal security division a few days after I had thoroughly interrogated this Kitty..........
I for one firmly believe the fact that it would indeed be premature to constitute a lynch squad and put Dhoni on the rack merely on the basis of largely unsubstantiated claims made by an infamous bookie...........
Let me also confirm the fact that I am far from being a fawning Dhoni fan or acolyte but also believe that an accused should be proved guilty beyond all reasonable doubt before being sentenced for the crimes committed by him............
In my humble opinion, the Supreme Court in it's infinite wisdom should constitute yet another investigative committee headed by a jurist of unimpeachable integrity to probe the claims made by this bookie in an expeditious and time bound manner so that the wheat can be separated from the chaff once and for all..........
Will the Supreme Court constitute one such committee or then simply let Dhoni off the hook?????well, your guess is as good as mine in this regard............
Yes, you did indeed hear it right a secret report submitted to the Supreme Court by the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee that was expressly constituted to explore the murky world of the IPL match fixing and betting scandal has submitted a secret report in a sealed cover quoting a top Tamil Nadu cop who utters the name of one M.S.Dhoni in his deposition before the very same committee........
Superintendent of Police G. Sampath Kumar's statement/deposition before the Mudgal committee extensively cites/quotes a bookie code named Kitty who has alleged that BCCI President N. Srinivasan's roguish son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan and M.S. Dhoni were indeed part of an unholy nexus that did more than their fair share of match fixing in the previous editions of the IPL.........
Confirming or reiterating the contents of his statement, Kumar confirms the fact that he had indeed given the Mudgal committee a signed statement about an exhaustive investigation conducted by him pertaining to the match fixing episodes of IPL season 6 when he was an integral part of the state police's internal security division last year........
"We (my team of of fellow officers and me) were intensively investigating a fake passport racket when we happened/chanced upon some rather startling information pertaining to the match fixing/betting scandal; we then proceeded to interview a bookie code named Kitty who repeatedly mentioned the names of Dhoni and Meiyappan repeatedly during the course of his interrogation"............
"He specifically mentioned or cited the case of a match held in Jaipur on May 12,2013 featuring the Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings IPL franchises and said that Meiyappan had bid a huge amount of money against his own team and Dhoni had agreed in principle to ensure that his team would not score more than 140 runs during the course of their innings".............
Chennai Super Kings ended up with a tally of 141/4 after 20 overs despite being 90/1 at the end of 11 overs; both Dhoni as well as Suresh Raina were dismissed for single digit scores during the course of their innings; Rajasthan Royals successfully chased down the Chennai Super Kings total in 17 overs or so and Meiyappan made a killing at the turnstiles", he concludes..........
He also candidly mentioned the fact that he had recommended exhaustive and expeditious investigations into the claims made by the bookie by an independent and impartial investigative agency, but was transferred out of the internal security division a few days after I had thoroughly interrogated this Kitty..........
I for one firmly believe the fact that it would indeed be premature to constitute a lynch squad and put Dhoni on the rack merely on the basis of largely unsubstantiated claims made by an infamous bookie...........
Let me also confirm the fact that I am far from being a fawning Dhoni fan or acolyte but also believe that an accused should be proved guilty beyond all reasonable doubt before being sentenced for the crimes committed by him............
In my humble opinion, the Supreme Court in it's infinite wisdom should constitute yet another investigative committee headed by a jurist of unimpeachable integrity to probe the claims made by this bookie in an expeditious and time bound manner so that the wheat can be separated from the chaff once and for all..........
Will the Supreme Court constitute one such committee or then simply let Dhoni off the hook?????well, your guess is as good as mine in this regard............
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