Chennai-based hotelier Vikram Agarwal had threatened
bookie Uttam C Jain alias Kitty that the 'D' company would finish him off if he
dared to give details of the IPL betting-match fixing syndicate, IPS officer G
Sampath Kumar had deposed to the Justice Mukul Mudgal committee.
"Agarwal told Kitty that Dawood Ibrahim's
brother Aneesh Ibrahim and his men had eliminated police inspector Padish Dutt,
who probed the match-fixing case registered by the Delhi police last year, and
his wife Gita Sharma, as they revealed about the syndicate," Sampath Kumar
said quoting the bookie's statement recorded by him. Dutt's wife Gita Sharma
was running a private detective agency in Delhi. The Delhi police had closed
the case with the theory that Dutt killed his wife and then ended his life.
Sampath Kumar, who is now the superintendent of
police, railways in Trichy, was part of the investigation team when the IPL
scam was exposed in May last year. He was instrumental in nabbing Kitty and
recording his statement.
"Though, I have given all the investigation
details to the CB-CID team which probed the case later, due to vested interest,
Kitty's vital evidence was overlooked by the CB-CID, and the investigation
focused on betting, leaving the match-fixing aspect and the larger conspiracy
untouched," said Sampath. "I have given all the details in black and
white before the Mudgal committee ... Vikram Agarwal threw parties to select
cricket players in his hotel and a few other places in the city."
Earlier, in his deposition, Sampath Kumar quoted
Kitty as saying: "Vikram Agarwal said that there was negotiation for
match-fixing between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings, and CSK
principal Gurunath Meiyappan has to communicate to the CSK captain M S Dhoni
and few others for finalization ... Vikram Agarwal in another party spoke to a
person in Jaipur named Sanjay and said Indian skipper M S Dhoni has agreed to
play as per the plan and his team would score 140 runs in the IPL league match
between Rajasthan Royals (RR) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK), which was held on
May 12, last year."
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