A Delhi court Sunday remanded cricketers S. Sreesanth and Ajit Chandila and bookies Chandresh and Ashwani to two more days in police custody, while cricketer Ankeet Chavan and three other bookies — Jiju, Deepak and Manan — were sent to judicial custody till July 4. One of the bookies, meanwhile, named three more IPL players in the scam, but officials refused to reveal names.
Seeking bail, Sreesanth said he was falsely implicated, while Chavan also sought bail as he is due to get married on June 2.
The court will hear both pleas on May 28.
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Shukla flown to Gurgaon clinic, remains critical
Age Correspondent
New Delhi, May 26
The condition of senior Congress leader and former Union minister Vidya Charan Shukla, seriously injured in Saturday’s Naxalite attack in Chhattisgarh and flown here from Raipur early Sunday to be admitted to a Gurgaon hospital, is extremely critical, doctors treating him said.
Dr Yatin Mehta, chairman of the Institute of Critical Care and Anaesthesiology at Medanta Hospital, said: “Shukla is undergoing treatment. He is critical.”
The 84-year-old leader earlier underwent an operation in a Jagdalpur hospital to remove three bullets. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and senior BJP leader L.K. Advani visited him at the Gurgaon hospital on Sunday. President Pranab Mukherjee voiced “shock and anguish” at the attack.