Police want to record the players' statements to ascertain if Meiyappan and Vindu Dara Singh were into match-fixing.
Harbhajan plays for Mumbai Indians and Meiyappan had told the police that Vindu had asked him to get close to Harbhajan with the intention of cultivating him for future matches.
"We are legally examining whether to record the statements of a few players who were in touch with Meiyappan," a crime branch official said on the condition of anonymity.
The crime branch will also summon Chennai-based hotelier Vikram Aggarwal alias Victor, who is suspected to be the key link between bookies and punters, to appear before it on Friday.
Officials said that Vindu and Meiyappan have both denied Aggarwal's role in the scandal but police want to know more about the back-to-back calls between him and absconding bookies Sanjay Jaipur, Pawan Jaipur and Chandresh alias Jupiter.
Several players also used to visit Aggarwal's Chennai hotel often, police said. Aggarwal is a close friend of Meiyappan. On Tuesday, a Mumbai crime branch team had gone to serve summons on Aggarwal but returned after learning that the Chennai police wanted to question him on Thursday.
"We have enough reasons to question him in regard to betting. We will be issuing fresh summons asking him to appear on May 31," said Himanshu Roy, joint commissioner of police (crime).
Investigators stumbled upon Victor while going through the call records of Vindu after the actor was arrested on May 21. Chennai police, too, are probing Aggarwal's role in connection with the betting racket.
They said Aggarwal had bought a SIM card in the name of his wife and used it used to make scores of calls to arrested bookie Uttamlal Jain alias Kitty on IPL match days.
Meanwhile, Vindu's police custody was extended till May 31, after the crime branch said it wanted to probe further his connections with bookies, players and teams.
Police said Vindu's questioning has exposed his links to the betting syndicate and revealed the names of several bookies and Bollywood celebrities.
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