A bookie was hired as a cleaner in the IPL, reported by BCCI ACU
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During the recently-suspended Indian Premier League, a possible corruptor posing, disguised as a cleaner was spotted at New Delhi's Arun Jaitley Stadium, according to BCCI's Anti Corruption Unit leader Shabbir Hussain Shekhadam Khandwawala.
A designated cleaner was observed using the time gap between actual match action and live TV coverage to assist in ball-by-ball betting, also known as court-siding or pitch siding, during one of the IPL games in New Delhi. Pitch-siding is the act of transmitting information from sporting events in order to gamble or place bets directly.
"One of my ACU officers caught a person and handed over the details to Delhi Police. While that particular offender managed to flee leaving behind his two mobile phones, ACU lodged a complaint with the Delhi Police," Hussain said on Wednesday (May 5).
Explaining what caused the suspicion for the ACU authorities, he said, "He was standing (inside Feroz Shah Kotla premises) in a secluded area all by himself and so one of our officers approached and asked him 'What are you doing here?' He said:"Main apne girlfriend se baat kar raha hoon. (I am talking to my girlfriend).
"My officer then asked him to dial the number he was talking to and then asked him to hand over the phones. Just when he was going through the contents of his phone, the guy fled from the spot...Also what raised suspicion was he had two mobiles."
The Delhi police had earlier caught two people carrying fake accreditation, on May 2, during the match between Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad.
"We are thankful to Delhi Police that in a separate incident they caught two other persons from the Kotla on ACU tip-off," he said. "So on two separate days, these people managed to get access to Kotla. The one who fled came in the garb of a cleaner. However, we have all his details as he was employed for the tournament. His Aadhar Card details have been handed over to Delhi Police” he added.
