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The 68-page order by the Patiala House district court, which has now paved the way for the start of the trial, noted the alleged role of the four -- Chawla, Kumar, Delhi-based bookie Rajesh Kalra and Sunil Dara alias Bittoo.
Mahadev App Case: Saurabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal, named by the ED as key figures in the betting racket, are now alleged to be associated with a match-fixing syndicate.
Former Zimbabwe captain confessed to taking cocaine but claimed that "an Indian businessman" and his colleagues tried to blackmail him into spot-fixing at international matches.
The Cricket's Match Fixers programme was broadcast by Al Jazeera on May 27, 2018. The programme alleged that two matches were fixed - India v England in Chennai in 2016 and India v Australia in Ranchi in 2017.
Though this is technically not the first time a wanted person of Indian origin is being extradited, the previous isn’t considered because it was voluntary. Back in October 2016, Samirbhai Vinubhai Patel was extradited to India on his own accord. He was accused of being involved in the 2002 Gujarat riots.
In 2013, the UPA had prepared a draft Bill to deal with sports fraud, but that got shelved by the Modi government in 2014
Regulation of betting will benefit technology companies that are trying to innovate in this space, consumers by ensuring they get a cleaner product and the government in terms of huge tax revenue
The Law Commission in a report asked the government to make match-fixing and sporting fraud a criminal offence with stringent penalties on those involved.
ICC Chief Executive Dave Richardson said that the spot-fixing and pitch-fixing allegations will not be brushed under the carpet.
Arjuna Ranatunga also accused the ICC of undermining the game by failing to tackle match-fixing.
In a video uploaded on his Facebook page, Arjuna Ranatunga said that he was shocked by the manner of Sri Lanka's defeat to India.
The Supreme Court today named Srinivasan, his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, Rajasthan Royals owner Raj Kundra, cricket administrator Sundararaman, who were probed by the Justice Mudgal committee which had found "some misdemanour by certain persons" and indicted them in the IPL6 scam.
Left at sixes and sevens, legal boundaries are unlikely to save cricket
Meiyappan, son-in-law of BCCI president N Srinivasan is accused of giving insider information to Vindoo regarding team strategy and players which he passed on to bookies.
Asked by reporters about Scindia asking for his resignation on moral grounds after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was arrested on charges of betting in IPL, Srinivasan said, "It's his view. I don't want to reply beyond that."
The petition by Lucknow resident Sudarsh Awasthi has made all IPL franchises and BCCI party in the case along with the Centre.
Sibal has emphasised that there was a need for a separate law to deal with the menace of fixing in cricket as the Indian Penal Code does not recognise match fixing and spot fixing as offences.
The audio analysis done by the special cell has Ajit eluding to 'did you have a problem last time'. The police say now that they are in custody, this angle will be probed too.
Any comfortable assumptions that world cricket has largely eradicated corruption after the shock of the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal are challenged in a disturbing new book investigating India's illegal bookmaking underworld.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter halted a whistle-blowing programme designed to help root out match-fixing in soccer before it could even start to work.
Australia considers 10 years jail for match-fixing
Wrestlers will have mobile phones confiscated while sumo officials are set to check for any smuggled through security at a make-or-break test tournament beginning on Sunday.
Three sumo wrestlers have admitted to match-fixing, the Japanese sports minister said on Thursday, in the latest blow to troubled sport as it tries to clean up its tarnished image following a series of scandals.
