Tuesday, 18 June 2013

IPL spot-fixing: Panel yet to begin work, waits for word from BCCI




Bangalore: BCCI’s tall claims of cleaning up Indian cricket after the IPL spot-fixing mess are coming across as a barefaced lie to the millions of fans.
Twenty-one days after N Srinivasan, as president, announced the setting up of an inquiry commission to probe into the alleged charges of betting on IPL cricket by his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, the investigation is headed nowhere. 
In fact, even the first steps have not been initiated as the two former judges of the Madras high court, Justice T Jayaram Chouta and Justice R Balasubramanian, have received neither the complaint nor the requisite documents from the BCCI. 
Speaking to reporters in Bangalore,  Chouta said that he and Balasubramanian would be able to start the probe only after receiving the terms of the commission, the complaint and documents from the cricket board. 
"Once we (Justice Chouta and Justice R Balasubramanian) receive these, we will sit together and decide the way forward," said the 76-year-old Chouta who is expected to be the chairman of the commission. 
"We can't meet or decide anything until the BCCI initiates the inquiry. They've appointed us and therefore it is they who have to first give us the complaint. Without that we can't do anything," said Chouta. 
With BCCI just sitting over the matter , the fixers and the punters are getting enough time to cover up their dirty act and escape unhurt in the biggest scandal to ever ht Indian cricket. 

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