Cops play intercepts of calls
The Delhi police on Tuesday played audio intercepts of telephone calls in a court here to buttress its claim about the nexus between underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and bookies in the IPL spot-fixing scandal.
Objecting to the bail pleas of suspended Rajasthan Royals player Ajit Chandila and seven others, the Delhi police special cell played out a conversation between Dawood and Javed Chutani, allegedly the key link with Indian bookies.
The police also informed additional sessions judge Renu Bhatnagar that bookie Ashwani Agarwal was in constant touch with Javed, a close associate of Dawood and Chhota Shakeel. However, during the proceedings, Ashwani’s counsel refuted the allegations of special cell, claiming he had no links with the underworld people. The audio played out in the court, was purported to be of Dawood, who was heard discussing a deal worth `8 million with Javed. Dawood was purportedly heard saying the deal should not be less than `8 million. The conversation was played during the hearing of bail pleas of Chandila and some bookies.
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, Ramesh Vyas, Deepak Kumar, Sunil Bhatia, Firoz Farid Ansari, Jitender Kumar Jain and ex-Ranji player Baburao Yadav. Meanwhile, the court has extended judicial custody of the accused till July 30.
In another conversation played on being asked by senior public prosecutor Rajiv Mohan, two bookies were discussing the flow of hawala money from Pakistan to India and vice versa.
In the call intercept purportedly of Ashwani and Sunil, signs were discussed by bookies for accused players, specifically Chandila, to indicate that they were fixing an over during a match.
The police also said that the accused should not be granted relief as they were following the command of Dawood and Chhota Shakeel and were running the syndicate at their behest in south and north India.
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