NEW DELHI – A plea has been filed before the Madras High Court to restrainthe holding of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018.
The High Court has issued notices to the BCCI and the central governmentbased on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by IPS officer G SampathKumar seeking to restrain the board from conducting the upcoming season ofthe Indian Premier League (IPL), DNA has reported.
IPL 2018 will begin from April 7.
Police officer G Sampath Kumar urged the court to restrain the Centre andBoard of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) from conducting IPL matcheswithout putting in place precautionary measures to prevent betting andspot-fixing.
“Contrary to the Lodha Committee’s report, vested interests still continueto be protected in the IPL and questions of conflict of interest remainunaddressed by the BCCI,” Kumar was quoted as saying by the Times of India.
Kumar was involved in investigating the 2013 IPL spot-fixing and bettingcases.
According to media reports, he had written a signed statement saying abookie named Kitty claimed MS Dhoni and former Chennai Super Kings teamprincipal Gurunath Meiyappan had taken part in a deal pertaining to illegalactivity in the IPL.
Dhoni’s name reportedly figures in a sealed envelope submitted to theSupreme Court by the Mudgal Committee.
According to FirstPost, Kumar was later suspended over allegedly takingbribes from bookies accused in the IPL betting scam. After four years, hewas reinstated again by the Tamil Nadu home department.
Kumar had then unearthed an international money laundering operation inwhich mafia don Dawood Ibrahim was reportedly involved.