Clean chit to Srnivasan in IPL betting by Mudgal committee

New Delhi: The Mudgal Committee investigating the allegations of spot fixing and betting in the Indian Premier League's (IPL) sixth edition has given a clean chit to BCCI president in exile N Srinivasan. The Supreme Court on Monday made parts of the report available to the public.

The panel confirmed to the Supreme Court that Srinivasan was not found to be involved in scuttling probe into match fixing scam. Srinivasan has been given a clean chit in both spot-fixing and betting involvement. However, the report has exonerated Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan of spot-fixing charges, but found him involved in betting. Srinivasan and other BCCI officials were aware of Meiyappan's activities but didn't take any action, further confirmed in the report.

The Mukul Mudgal committee said: "Investigations have confirmed that this individual was a team official of a franchise. He was frequently meeting individual 2 in his hotel room. This strengthens the conclusion of the committee ... that individual 1 was in close touch with individual 2."

"The forensic report of the voice sample analysis further confirms the voice of this individual in the conversation with the person acting as a go between, between this individual and bookies. Consequently, the divergent in the two reports dated 8.2.2014 and 9.2.2014 about the voice sample belonging to this individual gets resolved and the report thus becomes unanimous about the betting activity of this individual."

According to the committee, the then owner of Rajasthan Royals Raj Kundra was also in contact with bookies and was placing bets on matches. Moreovwer, IPL COO Sundar Raman knew a contact of a bookie and had contacted him eight times in one season.

Earlier, on Friday, the Supreme Court had revealed the names of Srinivasan, his son-in-law Meiyappan, Kundra and Sundar Raman among the non-players, who were being probed. The court had served notices to the four and scheduled the next hearing to November 24.