Police Superintendent Confirms Dhoni Was Named By Bookie

[kakatiya]

Superintendent of police, G Sampath Kumar, has confirmed that MS Dhoni was named by bookie Utham Jain aka Kitty, along with Gurunath Meiyappan, as part of a deal that involved fixing in the IPL.

Sampath Kumar told the Hindustan Times that "We were investigating a fake passport case when we came across information related to betting. We interrogated a man called Kitty, who talked about Dhoni and Meiyappan."

According to Hindustan Times, Sampath Kumar had recommended further investigation into Kitty's claims but was subsequently transferred out of the internal security branch and is now SP, Railways in Thiruchirapally. It is not known whether an investigation was subsequently carried out.

The statement by Kumar corroborates a story by India Today from two days ago that was based on Sampath's report. According to the report, ""Kitty [the bookie's alias] spoke of his knowledge about Vikram Agarwal, Gurunath Meiyappan and cricket players MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina and a few others, and another person in Rajasthan (suspected to be one of Jaipur brothers) in match-fixing."

[timmy]