Match fixing: Sports Minister meets top officials
Indian Sports Minister Uma Bharti on Wednesday met top officials from the CBI, Enforcement Directorate (ED), Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and the Delhi Police in a bid to chalk out a comprehensive action plan against match fixing in cricket
22-Nov-2000
Indian Sports Minister Uma Bharti on Wednesday met top officials from
the CBI, Enforcement Directorate (ED), Central Board of Direct Taxes
(CBDT) and the Delhi Police in a bid to chalk out a comprehensive
action plan against match fixing in cricket.
Officials from the Ministries of External Affairs, Home and Law were
also present in the hour-long meeting, Sports Ministry sources said.
The sources said this was the highest level official talks held in the
Government since the match-fixing scandal broke out in April with the
Delhi Police tapes throwing up evidence of a nexus between players and
bookies, which claimed its first victim in the former South African
skipper Hansie Cronje.
The officials from the law enforcing agencies discussed their
strategies with the Minister to tackle the menace and in turn the
Minister wanted to know as to what possible steps could be taken to
prevent this scandal from recurring in future, they said.
The Delhi Police, ED and CBDT discussed the evidence on hand with the
Minister and officials from other Ministries. They also discussed
possible ways and means to proceed further, the sources said.