After 14 years, a city court will begin hearing of 2000 match-fixing case involving former South African captain late Hansie Cronje and five others from May 20. The court has asked the Delhi Police to provide copy of the chargesheet and all the documents annexed with it to the accused.
The matter came up for hearing before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal and the court posted it for May 20 for scrutiny of documents. According to the chargesheet, Kishan Kumar had said that Chawla had paid `1.2 crore to Cronje in two instalments of `60 lakh each for fixing the matches. The police, in its 93-page chargesheet, has named Cronje, Kalra, Dara, Kishan Kumar, brother of slain T-Series founder Gulshan Kumar as accused.
Besides them, london-based bookie Sanjeev Chawla and Manmohan Khattar are also named as accused in the case and police has chargesheeted them for offences of cheating and criminal conspiracy under the IPC.