Two businessmen and a bouncer, who were arrested for their alleged involvement in the IPl spot-fixing scandal, were remanded to a day’s police custody by a city court.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate lokesh Kumar Sharma sent businessmen Vinod Sharma and Nitin Jain and bouncer Vikash Chowdhury to police custody till Thursday. The court had also sent remanded bookie Mohd Yahya in judicial custody till June 4, after the Delhi Police said that he was no more required for custodial interrogation. Yahya, who was arrested from Hyderabad when he was trying to flee to Dubai, was produced in the court after five-day police custody.
Seeking two-day custody of Sharma, Jain and Chowdhury, the police cited six reasons to interrogate them but the court rejected four of the agency’s grounds.
The court allowed the police to quiz the three accused for a day, keeping in mind the “paucity of time”. Hence, the agency did not get enough time to interrogate them. “Grounds are not appealing to send them to police custody. However, keeping in mind the paucity of time, I deem it appropriate to grant some more time to the investigating agency for their interrogation. Thus, the accused are remanded to police custody till May 30,” the judge said.