Match-fixing game going on with Pakistan in IPL, CBI cracks down on seven bookies

CBI has registered an FIR against seven suspected bookies for fixing IPL matches in 2019. All of them used to fix matches on the basis of information received from Pakistan. The news agency PTI has registered two FIRs in this regard. 

According to the FIR, the agency had received information that a network involved in cricket betting was influencing the results of the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches on the basis of information received from Pakistan.

The CBI has named Dilip Kumar, a resident of Rohini, Delhi, and Gurum Vasu and Gurum Sathish of Hyderabad, as accused in the first FIR. In the second FIR, Sajjan Singh, Prabhu Lal Meena, Ram Avtar and Amit Kumar Sharma have been named, all of whom are residents of Rajasthan.

According to the official, this gang was working from Rajasthan. The first gang was active from 2010 and the second from 2013. The network was acting on the basis of information coming from Pakistan. At the same time, 'by motivating betting' was also cheating the public.

The modus operandi of the gang operating from Rajasthan was similar to that of the Delhi-Hyderabad group. They also used to send money to their associates abroad through hawala. The agency has alleged that all the four members of the gang from Rajasthan were in touch with a Pakistani suspect who had contacted them and some other unidentified persons in India through Pakistani phone numbers.