The IPl match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore played on May 12 in Ranchi, may also come under the scanner of Delhi Police for match-fixing, police officials said on Tuesday. This came up after an interrogation of Rajasthan Royals’ Ajit Chandila and bookies, who are arrested on charges spot-fixing.
However, Delhi Police said as such they have no evidence to corroborate the claims of Chandila and others made during questioning.
Hence, they cannot come to a conclusion that the match was fixed. KKR had won the match in question, by four wickets.
A senior police officer said Bhupender Nagar, a security manager of two night clubs in Delhi, was in touch with Chandila for past seven to eight months as the player was a regular in the night club situated in a prominent hotel in Nehru Place.
“Nagar took Chandila, who came from Bangalore, to a night club in Vasant Kunj in the first week of may, where Vicky met him. later, Nagar, Vicky and two bookies went to Jaipur to meet Chandila and get some information about a particular match. Chandila was asked who will win the match between KKR and RCB on May 12. The spinner told the bookies that KKR will win,” the officer added.
The bookies had agreed to pay `30 lakh to Chandila, but they refused to pay him later as they had claimed to have incurred a loss due to a low-scoring match.
“RCB batted first and scored 115. Chasing the target, KKR made the winning runs in the 20th over. Chandila was paid an advance of `2 lakh. As the bookies later refused to pay the full amount, hectic negotiations followed. later, the bookies relented and gave `5 lakh more to Vicky to pay Chandila,” the officer added.
“Instead of paying Chandila, Vicky and Nagar pocketed the money. `2.85 lakh was kept by Vicky, while Nagar kept the rest. This sequence matched with our interrogation of Chandila and Nagar. We also have a telephone interception to this effect,” an officer said.
However, the official was quick to add that he cannot say the match was fixed as there was no evidence to suggest so.