Tag: IPL

The Bombay High Court today sought to know from the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) if it would seek additional water supply from the Pune civic body for ground and pitch maintenance for six IPL matches shifted to that city from Chennai. The MCA stadium at Gahunje in Pune will host the remaining six ‘home’ matches […]

The Bombay High Court today said the IPL has made people familiar with phrases like “betting and fixing” and in view of the alleged violations of foreign exchange rules it was time to see if the tournament was in interest of the game of cricket. The scathing remarks were made by a division bench of […]

Mumbai Cricket Association on Friday moved the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court order directing shifting of IPL matches outside Maharashtra. The plea was mentioned before a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh by senior advocate Kapil Sibal which listed the matter for hearing on April 25. The cricket association in […]

The Bombay High Court today declined to stay the IPL opening match on April 9 here as sought by a public interest litigation challenging use of large quantity of water for maintaining pitches despite the grave water crisis in Maharashtra due to drought. The PIL, filed by Loksatta Movement, sought shifting of IPL matches out […]

The Enforcement Directorate on Monday moved a special court here seeking issuance of a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against former IPL chief Lalit Modi in a case of alleged money laundering registered against him. The central agency approached the special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Court after Modi, who has made London his home, did […]

A court hearing the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing case on Monday set July 25 for framing charges in the matter. Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna deferred till July 25 the court order on finalising the charges in the case. The court also fixed July 13 for clarification if required in the matter. Delhi […]

The unrecognised Cricket Association of Bihar Secretary Aditya Verma on Friday called on the Asian Cricket Council to bar N Srinivasan from heading the body, saying that allowing him to do so would be in violation of a Supreme Court order. “…As on date Mr Srinivasan is debarred from functioning as the President of BCCI. […]

Former Indian Premier League (IPL) czar Lalit Modi will have to wait a little longer to know the outcome of elections to the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) as the Supreme Court Friday adjourned the hearing and directed the listing of the matter to Jan 27. A bench of Justice Anil R. Dave and Justice Jagdish […]

Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought the centre’s response to a PIL seeking a direction for the sports ministry to take over the Indian Premier League (IPL) by separating it from the Indian cricket board. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru asked the Ministry of Sports and Youth […]

A Delhi court Monday sent suspended Rajasthan Royals player Ajit Chandila, arrested in connection with the IPL spot fixing scam, to three days’ police custody for interrogation. Sending Chandila to police custody, Additional Sessions Judge Ajay Kumar Jain also posted for June 22 the bail pleas of the cricketer and five other accused. “The matter […]

Sreesanth in his fresh bail plea said he has been implicated in the case and even when he was in police custody, the probe agency was not able to recover any evidence against him or recover anything at his instance. Suspended cricketer S Sreesanth on Tuesday moved fresh bail application before a Delhi court after […]

Rajasthan Royals player Siddharth Trivedi today recorded his statement before a Delhi court in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal, in which his teammates S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan are arrested. His statement assumes importance as the court sources said he is understood to have revealed some more names for their alleged involvement in the scandal. Trivedi’s statement recorded under Section […]

Cricketer Ankeet Chavan, who was arrested by Delhi police recently for his alleged role in spot-fixing during IPL games, was on Thursday granted bail till June 6 by a city court for his wedding. Chavan was granted interim bail to tie nuptial knot on June 2. The court granted bail to Chavan on Rs 1 lakh […]

“If the bowler was fixed, what was the batsman doing?” the query was posed by a Delhi court to the investigators today. The court said it was posing this query as it wanted to know if the Delhi Police was probing the role of any batsman in the IPL spot-fixing case. “If the bowler was […]

Delhi Police was on May 29 pulled up by a court here for its flip flop in the handling of the IPL spot-fixing case and hiding the arrest of Abhishek Shukla, a friend of cricketer S Sreesanth, and termed it as a “bad practice”. The court was also anguished that Shukla, who was arrested this […]

Suspended cricketer Ankeet Chavan, an accused in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, on May 29 moved a fresh bail application before a sessions court after he was denied the relief by a magisterial court. Chavan filed his bail plea before Additional Sessions Judge Vinay Kumar Khanna, who has kept the matter for hearing on May 30. […]

Arrested cricketers S Sreesanth and Ajit Chandila besides two bookies were today remanded in judicial custody till June 4 by a Delhi court which rejected the investigators’ plea for two more days of custodial interrogation of the Indian pacer in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma turned down […]

With this, 12 persons have been arrested so far by Mumbai police in connection with the betting case being probed by it including Bollywood actor Vindoo Randhawa and CSK owner Gurunath Meiyappan. In the continuing crackdown on IPL betting syndicates, Mumbai crime branch on Monday arrested two bookies who were allegedly in contact with their […]

Top B-town actors alongwith top officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) were issued notice by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday for participating in an alleged obscene stage performance at the inaugural of Indian Premier League (IPL)-V in Chennai on April 3, seeking registration of a […]