SC panel interacted with top players, journos, administrators

The Supreme Court-appointed panel which probed the IPL spot-fixing scandal, apart from talking with the accused, also spoke to journalists, commentators, police officials and cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni as part of its inquiry into the case.
The panel in its report said that the names of a few of the persons it interacted with have not been disclosed as they had asked that their identities be protected.
The committee has provided a list of around 60 people with whom it interacted during the inquiry with the names including political heavyweights and cricket administrators Arun Jaitley and Rajiv Shukla.

It also spoke with formers players like Anil Kumble, Saurav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Krishnamachari Srikkanth.
The committee also met almost all of those whose names figure in the scam, including Gurunath Meiyappan, Raj Kundra, S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Siddharth Trivedi.
It had sought the appearance of Vindoo Dara Singh, but he abstained from appearing, the committee added.

Many sports journalists and editors including N Ram, Kadambari Murali and commentator Harsha Bhogle, too, were consulted by it.
Current BCCI chief N Srinivasan and his predecessors AC Muthiah, Jagmohan Dalmiya, Shashank Manohar and IS Bindra were also consulted.

The panel also met former CBI director RK Raghavan.