The Mudgal Committee appointed to probe into allegations of IPL 2013 Match Fixing, has transcripts revealing conversations that indicate PL match was fixed by Indian Captain MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina.
What can come out of this Probe and the Committee Report?
“A report of details revealed during the interrogation of a bookie, known by the name of ‘Kitty’, alias Uttham Jain, was submitted to the Committee by IPS Officer G Sampath Kumar.
The report alleges that more than half of the matches played during IPL 2013 could have been fixed and Indian Cricket team players MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina knew about the wrongdoings.
The report provides incriminating evidence suggesting that the match between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals played on May 12, 2013 was FIXED.
The report quotes phone transcripts between Gurunath Meiyappan and Vindoo Dara Singh. The two can be heard discussing bets on the match between CSK and RR on May 12, 2013…
Meiyappan tells Vindoo that CSK will score around 140 runs. Later, CSK scored 141 runs in the match.
‘During the match, Gurunath placed bets of Rs.1.4 crore against CSK and confidently told Vindoo that Royals will win. In a conversation at 21:09 on May 12, 2013, stating that he has already placed bets of Rs. 20 lakh, Gurunath asks Vindoo to place Rs. 30 lakh more on Rajasthan. He says, “RR is winning pakka”,’ the Mail Today report quoted.
Meiyappan and Aggarwal were approached by a man from RAJASTHAN at Radisson Blu Hotel, Egmor. The report published in Mail Today reveals that Meiyappan informed Kitty that a discussion is going in regarding fixing the match between CSK and RR, scheduled to take place on May 12, 2013.
A second meeting took place on April 27, 2013 and Vikram Aggarwal informed Kitty that a deal was WORKED OUT.
‘Later after dinner party Meiyappan has informed that Chennai Super Kings MS Dhoni has agreed to play as per plan and his team will score 140 runs and this was communicated to somebody ( Sanjay) in Jaipur over phone by Vikram Agarwal when Kitty was nearby,’ the Mail Today report quoted.
In a separate conversation between Aggarwal and Vindoo- ‘Vikram Agarwal told him [ Kitty] that there was negotiation for match- fixing between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings and Meiyappan has to communicate to Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni and few others for finalisation,’ the report submitted with Mudgal Committee was quoted by Mail Today.
We, in India, are used to Politicians hushing up scams, doctoring evidence, out right rolling the issue under the carpet or even doctoring the FIRs.
A record of sorts in the world was created when the Deli’s Anti Corruption Branch refused to take action against Union Minister in the Reliance Gas Price fixing case.
Shinde, Home Minister, India
Read the degradation of Democracy.
NEW DELHI: In a U-turn, Delhi Government‘s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has refused to probe a complaint of “misuse” of official position by a Union Minister as it was beyond its jurisdiction.
Incidentally, the ACB had last week registered an FIR against Petroleum Minister Veerappa Moily, RIL Chief Mukesh Ambani, former Union Minister Murli Deora and retired Director General of Hydrocarbons V K Sibal among others on Reliance gas pricing issue.
I was travelling to Tiruchi recently and happened to meet some one who is a reliable source for DMK Family news.
Hotel Saravana Bhavan Bought by SUn Network?
Casually he remarked that the Sun Network has bought the Chennai based Saravana Bhavan Group of Hotels,
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On checking up the web I came to know that there was indeed a rumor to this effect triggered by a Tweet ans even the IT Department found it credible enough to think of a raid in the Saravana Bhavan Premises.
It seems that the rumor is untrue.
As my source is normally reliable, as has been proved in many a case before, and the fact that the information is the latest, only 2 G Knows!
Story:
CHENNAI: It had all the makings of a viral tweet. It mentioned a “rumour” about Kalanithi Maran‘s Sun Groupbuying the home-grown restaurant chain Hotel Saravana Bhavan. That too, for a jaw-dropping sum. Yet, this Mondaytweet by Bangalore-based techie RB Suseendran received a tepid response, at best.
It would have died a natural death if journalists hadn’t seen this tweet. They did. And on Monday journalists scurried for confirmation from both parties…
This, even as journalists wondered why Maran would buy into the food business, however yummy (Saravana Bhavan has daily footfalls of some 80,000 across its 32 Indian outlets; there are 46 more overseas), when he is yet struggling with this 2010 acquisition of carrier SpiceJet.
Both parties denied it vehemently on Monday. A Sun TV spokesperson called it “hilariously funny” while another thought it was “rubbish.” A spokesperson for Saravana Bhavan denied it too.
The episode seemed to have ended then and there, without a story. But it hadn’t.
On Tuesday, the Income Tax Department got alerted. An official called up Saravana Bhavan to see this tweet indeed was true. Taxmen had raided the hotel just a few months back.
When ET contacted Suseendran over phone, he said he merely picked up the new from the Facebook page of one Anbalagan Veerappan.
The hotel, not so savvy in the ways of social media, was left wondering where it all came from.”
There are quite a few scams that go unnoticed, like the Thorium being stolen in Tamil Nadu.
Defense Ministry Forges
Please read my post on this.
We also know of Adarsh Scam,2G,ISRO, Antrix Devas,CWG,Maharashtra Irrigation.Kalaignar TV,Mining scams in Goa Karnataka……. the list is endless, not to forget Westland Helicopter scam in which Sonia Gandhi was named in an Italian Court.
Most of us imagine that if the Court delivers a verdict or instructs the Government the issue is taken care of.
It is another matter that the Government through CBI may with draw, close the case or even the Courts fudging the issue.
But how many of us know that the Government, after receiving Court Orders does not follow the action advised by the Court but worse, changes Court’s orders?
Or that it simply ignores them merrily and goes ahead exactly in the opposite direction?
The Ministry o f Defense ,India , through its Secretary changes the Court’s Order to suit the Government!
And the black listed Firms for Corruption are not blacklisted but are on the active list of approved vendors?
Read this fraud perpetrated on the Defence Personnel.
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Shashi Kant Sharma, erstwhile Defence Secretary (now CAG) is to stand in the Supreme Court on 13th February 2014 along with his other cronies from MaD in response to SC summons in wake of a 49-page contempt petition filed by the Retired Defence Officers Association (RDOA) in the apex court over non-implementation of the court’s September 2012 order – summons that came in wake of non-implementation of the SC order to MoD (read MaD) to pay the dues it owes to the former defence officers vide the said SC order. It is quite public by now that the ‘rank pay case’ was initially fought by Major Dhanapalan and later RODA too took up the case and moved the court. After years of legal battle, the SC had envisaged re-fixation of pay for all affected military officers for Rank Pay with effect from 1st January 1986 – the date of implementation of the Fourth Pay Commission. However, the MaD in its implementation order of the December 2012, based on the SC verdict, very mischievously changed it to “as on 1st January 1986” – while Shashi Kant Sharma was the Defence Secretary. The SC summons say, “You shall attend the court in person and shall continue to attend the court on all days thereafter to which the case against you stands adjourned and until final orders are passed on the charge against you. Herein fail not.”
Whether Shashi Kant Sharma will be present in SC on 13th February or feign a heart attack like Musharraf is not known but what he and his MaD cronies symbolize is the essence of the MaD Club’s contempt to those in uniform plus those who have hung up their boots. This is also the reason why they have been stonewalling all attempts to rectify the politico-military disconnect. There was talk of rewarding Sharma’s services to the mafia in breaking the institutional integrity of the military and concert with Goolam Vahanvati, the Attorney General. While the latter got an extended tenure, this can hardly be the only reason for Sharma to be appointed CAG anyway. The surprising part is that despite willfully committing contempt of the SC order with respect to the rank pay case and the fact that the contempt notice was sent when Sharma was still the Defence Secretary, he was still appointed to the high constitutional post of CAG. So the services that Sharma rendered to the ‘supreme mafia’ must have been of very exceptional order indeed. The real reasons perhaps will never been known but maybe one of the reason could be that Sharma happened to be the DG (Acquisition) of MoD when the Augusta Westland Helicopter deal was signed in 2010. Now it quite logical that it is the DG (Acquisition) who signs papers, negotiates the cuts and decides who gets what including the delivery mode. So when India has already paid 45 percent of the deal value, it is no way the deal would have been signed without the ‘cuts’ on the total deal (100 percent) having been delivered at required destinations. So, no one is fooled by the amount mentioned with respect to the Tyagi brothers which is small pocket change. Then, the Augusta Westland helicopter scam is a recent case. Shashi Kant Sharma was in the MaD club for over a decade. So, his ‘exceptional services’ would have gone way beyond the above two issues when so many more major defence acquisitions were made.
The Augusta Westland deal has been cancelled and probably one odd guy will be asked to return his / her cut that will be quietly made known to the environment, like it happened when the Eurocopter deal was cancelled and just one fellow was asked to return a few million Euros but then immediately given solid immunity by moving him as Governor. So in the Augusta Westland helicopter deal too, the balance will retain the moolah as part of future investment that is adjustable at the international arms industry level. And yes, the probe agencies would not dare to question top bureaucrats like Defence Secretary without government approval but then who do you think constitutes the ‘supreme mafia’? If you still are wondering then perhaps you need to read Gen. VK Singh’s autobiography that tells you that the corruption trail from MoD goes right up to the PMO. You would probably dub it a flight of fancy especially since we have such a clean Defence Minster but then you get wondering if the reported losses in crores of Air India includes the Rs 28 crores paid to the Defence Minister’s spouse by AAI for four of her paintings to be put up at civil airports. The appointment of CAG is arbitrary by the government, whereas the selection should be through a committee / collegiums constituted for the purpose. Then what about the Defence Minister’s penchant to ban firms at the drop of a hat and pray what is the criteria for lifting the blacklisting? Who does the inquiry and examination? Since it is all in-house you can well assume what the main criteria would be? This was a classic query with regard to the 155mm gun displayed at DEFEXPO 14 by Denel, a firm till recently blacklisted. Look at the manner in which the procurement of the Barak anti-air systems approved in 1997 for our Navy was kept in abeyance for several years.
Historically, the foundation of MaD can be traced to the Nehru’s disdain for the military and Krishna Menon, his blue-eyed Defence Minister who masterminded the first defence scam of independent India (Jeep Scandal), brought the country to shame in 1962 by ignoring basic military equipping, and yet ended up with a road in the heart of New Delhi Krishna Menon Marg) replete with his bust installed on a pedestal and an annual garlanding ceremony.
The recent suspension of MK Azhagiri, the eldest son of DMK Supremo M.Karunanidhi and former Union Minister and his threat to expose the party has some interesting background.
This is linked to the 2 G scam, M K Staling gaining the upper hand in the running of the DMK and the alliance for the ensuing Lok Sabha Elections.
The DMK was forced to walk out of the Congress in the of the resentment in Tamil Nadu against the Congress’s support of Rakapakshe regime and the active collaboration of India in the Genocide of the Tamils in Sri Lanka during the final war against the LTTE.
Added to the factwas the implicting of Kanimozhi in 2G and the apparent inability of the Congress to bail out Kanimozhi.
Congress also wanted to distance itself from the DMK as the DMK had become synonymous with Coruuption after 2G Scam and the Kalaignar TV money laundering.
So the parting of ways was mutual.
This was some time ago.
Now that the Elections are near bith teh DMK and The Congress need the other.
Group led by Stalin does not to ally with the Congress while Kanimozhi wants to continue as a matter of personal safety.
To add to this equation, DMK wants to carry Vijayakanth’s Party .
Azhagiri is against this while Stalin is for this alliance, this is the majority DMK view.
Vijayakanth is against the alliance with the DMK direct but will go through the Congress.
So Congress fired the fist salvo by having the Kanimozhi Jaffer Sait Audio released.
More tapes to follow with the next audio to be released in reported to contain the talks between Karunanidhi and Jaffer Sait which implicates Karunanidhi in the 2 G scam.
As Azhagiri is again the Vijayakanth he quarreled with Stalin and Karunanighi and if some reports in the Tamil Media is to be believed Azhagiri went teven to the extent of attempting to assault karunanidhi.
The result was hat Karunanidhi went Public suspending Azhagiri fro the DMK complaining that Azhagiri wished Stalin dead and used parliamentary words to him!
Azhagiri retaliated saying that he would disclose details of the DMK accounts pertaining to DMK and MurasoliTrusts.
Stalin and his men are reported to have transferred a major portion of these Trusts’ Assets worth 40, 000 crore in their names.
An election is fought on the basis of greed corruption swindling and blackmail.
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