They claim to have recovered a Z-10 Blackberry mobile phone from the possession of a girlfriend of S Sreesanth who now resides in Jaipur. The phone had cost him Rs 42,000.
Sreesanth's apparently also bought designer clothes worth Rs 1.95 lakh including three pairs of jeans from a Diesel store in Mumbai in a single day just before the Rajathan Royals match against Mumbai Indians on May 15.
"He made cash payment for buying clothes and also spent lavishly in clubs and discotheques," a senior police official said. Sources said that a special cell team stationed at Mumbai has already recorded the statement of the store manager who confirmed that he had come to the store himself to buy these clothes. Sources claimed the clothes, too, have been recovered.
"We have documents to prove that he used the money from spot-fixing to buy these articles," the official added. Sources said they are ascertaining the place where the phone was bought and the method in which it was delivered to Sreesanth's friend.
"A team was sent to the woman's house after Sreesanth told us about it during interrogation," S N Shrivastava, Special CP special cell said. The player was himself taken to Jaipur on Monday just for this purpose and brought back early on Tuesday - in time to be produced in a local court. All three players could be taken out of Delhi for further recoveries. A team led by DCP Sanjeev Yadav is already raiding places across states.
The cops though have so far ruled out any role of the 'girlfriend' in the spot-fixing and said she was co-operating with the police.
Sources said that they have also contacted the travel agency in Kerala who arranged for the rooms of fixer Jiju and Sreesanth at a hotel in Mumbai. The bill ran up to Rs 58,000. Police are also probing if Sreesanth had plans to invest in movies or had already done so. They have some leads on this, a source said. Sources said Sreesanth revealed during questioning that he wanted to act in movies.
Meanwhile, based on the complaint received from the CFO of Rajasthan Royals, Satyam Saraswat, the Delhi police on Tuesday added IPC section 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent) to the existing FIR . In its complaint, Rajasthan Royals said it had entered into an agreement with the three players stipulating clearly that they would abide by the rules and regulations of ICC, BCCI and the IPL governing body.
Sources said the franchise said they came to know that the players indulged in spot-fixing with a personal motive and for financial gains and that they "fundamentally eroded" the sanctity of the game. They sought registration of a case against the players under Section 420 (cheating), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 409 of IPC.
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