Gibbs claims Delhi police had talked of death penalty!
South African cricketer Herschelle Gibbs claims in his controversial autobiography To the Point that a senior Delhi police officer tried to intimidate him with the threat of a death penalty during his 2006 interrogation for suspected involvement in the 2000 match-fixing scandal in India.
Gibbs quoted the officer, who he didn’t name but described as a “tough-looking old Sikh gentleman who headed Delhi’s murder and robbery team” as saying: “Sir, you better come clean. We still have the death penalty here.” It appears to be a reference to A.S. Cheema, who then headed the anti-extortion cell of the crime branch.
Gibbs was accompanied by his lawyer Peter Whelan. “Needless to say, Peter jumped right in with both feet and threatened to end the meeting right there if they tried this kind of intimidating tactic,” Gibbs wrote.
Gibbs also had to apologise to then crime branch joint commissioner chief Ranjit Narayan for calling him “hard-arsed”. “I think the Indians were pretty taken aback when I turned up with both my lawyer and the high commissioner. I was hustled inside to see K.K. Paul, my Indian nemesis for the past six years. ‘Hello, Mr Gibbs,’ he said. ‘I’m a big fan of yours’. Not exactly the reception I had been expecting!” — PTI
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