Mukul Mudgal, the former Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana and the head of the three-member probe committee, said in his report that the former BCCI president I.S. Bindra has also stated that he was aware of the alleged involvement of two reputed Indian players in match fixing.
The names of these players have been handed over to the Apex court in a sealed envelope and thus have not been made public.
The report quotes a journalist, who had procured recording of tapes for a sports magazine, identifying the voice of the Indian player who was also a part of the Indian World Cup team and is also a member of the team now.
“The journalist refused to disclose the names of the Indian players involved. In spite of repeated requests to put the name of the said player in a sealed cover for perusal before the Supreme Court, the journalist appeared terrified and was very reluctant to do so and pleaded that it would be dangerous for the journalist concerned,” it said.
“It thus appears that names of six prominent Indian capped players are available in tapes in connection with dealings with bookies while two of these prominent Indian capped players have also been named by none other than a former President of BCCI,” the report said.
The report, which referred to transcripts of taped conversations between two alleged bookies Chandresh Jain and Ashwani Aggarwal and also has “references to high level fixing of players where the names of two international Indian players were mentioned”, has been filed before a bench headed by Justice A.K. Patnaik.
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