NEW DELHI: A Delhi court directed on Saturday that charges in the infamous IPL 2013 spot-fixing case will be framed on June 29 and that it will accept written submissions from the accused till June 6. The Special Cell of Delhi Police had previously charged three former Rajasthan Royals cricketers, including banned Test pacer S. Sreesanth, of being involved in match-fixing.

Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan have been banned by the BCCI and the impact of the match-fixing and betting scandal went on to rock one of the world’s most powerful cricket administrators, N. Srinivasan.

Srinivasan, whose aspiration to remain president of the BCCI was negated by a Supreme Court order earlier this year, has been the biggest casualty in the IPL scandal but no player has been punished by the court so far.

On May 8, Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna reserved the order on framing of charges after special public prosecutor Rajiv Mohan filed written submissions in support of his arguments advanced in the case.

The Special Cell of Delhi Police had charge-sheeted 42 accused in the case.

The investigation conducted by the police had earlier come under scrutiny of the court which had questioned its theory of “match-fixing”, saying there was prima facie no evidence showing that matches were fixed by the accused. The defence counsel had also argued there was prima facie no evidence to frame charge in the case.

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2015

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