Presently, three cricketers and 19 other accused are out on bail. Delhi Police sources said that their chargesheet would have elaborate evidence against the cricketers and the underworld including tapped conversations, videos of players throwing away runs in their respective overs, details of meetings with bookies/fixers and CCTV footage of different hotels apart from CFSL reports.
Besides voice samples, Delhi Police sources say, they have the confessions of three cricketers and many bookies in IPL spot-fixing, which involved money ranging from Rs 20 to Rs 60 lakh for giving away 14 runs or more in an over. The cops say they also have enough circumstantial evidence against the three cricketers including phone locations, photographs clicked by Special Cell teams while tracking them in Mumbai, Chandigarh, Jaipur and other places.
Other evidence include statements of two cricketers, Sidharth Trivedi and Harmeet Singh under section 164 of the CRPC and statements of Rajasthan Royals team owner Raj Kundra and that of officials of BCCI.
Experts say that this would be the first cricket-scandal in India in which a police department would be filing a chargesheet.
The scandal came to the fore on May 15 when a Delhi Police Special Cell arrested three Rajasthan Royals cricketers for allegedly taking money for spot-fixing. The matches fixed in IPL season 6 were on May 5, 9 and 15 against Pune Warriors, Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians respectively, where these three RR players gave predetermined runs.
The players, who were suspended by the BCCI, were booked under section 420 (cheating) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and later MCOCA was invoked on them. Section 420 invites maximum punishment of seven years.
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