Cricket scam: Nine more suspects told to join probe

Gurugram, October 27

In the ongoing probe into the ‘cricket scam’, the names of nine more possible suspects have come to the fore and they have been asked to join the investigation.

The new list includes BCCI ex-officials, IPL organising members and officials of the Bihar Cricket Association (BCA). The suspects have been identified as Sarvpreet Singh (operation cricket Delhi & District Cricket Association), Baljeet Joban (cricket coach), Omprakash Tiwari (conveyor of BCA), Sanjay Kumar Singh (working committee of BCA), Sanjeev Ratan Singh (BCA ex-treasurer and Bihar Cricket League chairperson), Mahim Verma (Secretary of Cricket Association of Uttarakhand (CAU) and former vice-president of BCCI), Aman Singh (CEO of Cricket Association of Uttarakhand and assistant venue operations manager of IPL 2021), Praveen Sinha (coach from Bihar) and Sonu Kumar. “We served notices on many persons, including the nine suspects, and some have even sent their replies to us. Further probe is on and we are now preparing the chargesheet first,” said IO Sub-Inspector Umesh Kumar, . — OC