Accused in IPL case were part of Dawood's syndicate: police

Delhi Police today opposed in a court here the bail pleas of nine persons, including suspended cricketer Ajit Chandila, arrested in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal, saying they knew their activities were part of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's syndicate.
Arguing before Additional Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma, Special Public Prosecutor Rajiv Mohan said the prosecution has recorded telephonic conversations of the accused in which they had decided the signals for spot fixing and the same things were being done by them on cricket field during the matches.
The court, after hearing the arguments, reserved its order on the bail applications for September 2.

During the arguments, the prosecutor said there is a syndicate of Dubai and Pakistan-based Dawood, Chhota Shakeel, Javed Chutani and Salman and India-based Ashwani Agarwal, Ramesh Vyas and Firoz Farid Ansari all of whom are accused in the case.
"This is a syndicate. The investigation was started with a phone number of Dubai and there was an information that this number was involved in illegal activities. This number was in touch with Javed Chutani and Ashwani Agarwal," he said.
"All the accused had full knowledge that whatever activities they were doing were part of Dawood's syndicate," the prosecutor said.

The court was hearing arguments on the bail pleas of Ajit Chandila, bookies Jitender Kumar Jain, Ashwani Agarwal, Ramesh Vyas, Deepak Kumar, Sunil Bhatia, Firoz Farid Ansari, ex-Ranji player Baburao Yadav and Chandra Prakash Jain alias Chandresh Jain who was allegedly accepting bets by the name of Jupiter.

The prosecutor told the court that four charge sheets have been filed against Chhota Shakeel in different cases in Delhi and cognizance has been taken by the courts.
He also said that in the last 10 years, three charge sheets have been filed against Dawood in different cases in which two were under the provisions of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).