The Disciplinary Committee of theBCCI banned -S. Sreesanth along with Ankeet Chavan, for life, for their involvement in spot-fixing during certain matches of the IPL 2013
The committee comprising N. Srinivasan, Arun Jaitley and Niranjan Shah, heard other accused Amit Singh, Siddharth Trivedi and Harmeet Singh and awarded -
Amit Singh was handed a five-year ban
Trivedi was banned for one year and young
Harmeet Singh was let off owing to lack of evidence as per the report submitted by the Board’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU)
The fate of Ajit Chandila will be known after Sawani completes his report and forwards it to the disciplinary committee. Chandila, who managed to get bail on September 9, is yet to face Sawani and the disciplinary committee
Note
Sreesanth, Chandila and Chavan, besides 26 others, were arrested in May 2013 following investigations by Delhi Police on the basis of recorded telephone conversations suggesting Sreesanth had conceded a pre-determined number of runs for monetary considerations from certain bookies.
The investigations later led to the arrests of Amit Singh and Harmeet while Trivedi told police that he was offered money by bookies but he did not accept it
BCCI's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) chief Ravi Sawani entrusted to enquire into the allegations of match-fixing and spot-fixing during the IPL
In June 2013, the court gave bail to Sreesanth and Chavan along with 19 others for lack evidence to be tried under Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA).
On Friday Sep 13,2013, the players were heard by the Disciplinary Committee of theBCCI in turns with Sreesanth being the last on the list
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