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Sreesanth, Chandilla and Ankit Chavan arrested for spot fixing in IPL


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Arnab makes slanderous statements about everybody but hasn't been sued yet.
Pretty telling stuff from the caravan article on arnab goswami. This might explain why channels and websites put up a lot of news and articles which are pulled down after a few hours, like the rahul dravid news today. When they are breaking news, the channels remove all the midlayer folks who verify news before airing them
Under normal circumstances, footage is pushed through from here to the edit room; edited clips are conveyed onward to the output desk, and then launched into space from the production control room. For this event, the machine was primed to behave less like a conveyor belt and more like a catapult. Incoming footage was diverted straight to the production room, with words tacked on remotely as the digital footage streamed by. The entire chain of events, from recording to broadcast, took less than 30 seconds. This streamlined process was the primary reason editors and reporters said Times Now was unmatched in live coverage; as one former Times Now journalist told me, There is no bureaucratic delay, as there is with other channels. But nimbleness was only one reason why Times Now had consistently beaten its more established rivals in the ratings from late 2008 until early 2012. Goswami wanted to dominate the agenda on the issues he chose to highlight, and to be fast and first with breaking news. He prized speed, new information, and captivating visuals over explanation and analysis. But the channel’s emphasis on reducing “bureaucratic delay” and broadcasting news quickly has come at a cost. “If you have a copy editor involved, it causes a delay,” the bureau chief said. Two reporters said that the channel had few internal filters to prevent errors from going on air. According to the senior manager, “the obsession with speed” led to a particularly expensive mistake on 10 September 2008. A story about a provident fund scam involving a number of judges unfolded on the network that afternoon and, for approximately 15 seconds, Times Now broadcast the name of one judge, PK Samanta, along with what they believed was a picture of him. The image was of the wrong man. Justice PB Sawant, who retired from the Supreme Court and now lives in Pune, was alarmed to hear that his face had been flashed on Times Now in connection with the scam. Within five days, Sawant demanded an apology and payment of Rs. 500 million in damages. He received neither, though Times Now issued a correction on 23 September. When the channel finally broadcast an apology two days later, Sawant was still dissatisfied, and filed suit against Times Now in a Pune district court, which in April 2009 awarded Sawant Rs. 1 billion in damages. (That financial year, Times Now and the other three channels that make up Times Global Broadcasting had an overall income of only Rs. 1.47 billion.) Goswami decided cameramen at Times Now would be called video journalists, and he empowered them to make decisions during live events—an inversion of the traditional relationship between reporters and cameramen. “At Times Now, reporters are called sound bite collectors,” a former Mumbai bureau chief said. “If there’s a story happening, video journalists take over.” If a broadcast van was not close by, reporters would leave the scene to deliver footage by hand so the channel’s video journalists could keep filming.
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This is from an article response How is it that these 3 players arrested for spot fixing betrayed the country??? They are not playing for their national team but for a franchise club called the Rajasthan Royals and the IPL statistics are not even internationally recognised. Rajasthan Royals who themselves have been accused of money laundering for the past few years. Likewise, the Punjab Kings XI who were also grilled by ED for money laundering. Kolkata Knight Riders also accused on money laundering as Shahrukh Khan the owner of the club (a prominent News channel had reported in 2011) is a close friend of HASAN ALI (The Biggest Tax evader and CROOK of INDIA and associated with many Terrorist Organisations). Pune Warriors who is owned by a born loser and looter called Subrata Roy who has swindled billions from poor investors. Royal Challengers Bangalore whose owner has millions to pay the RCB players and billions for Formula One but has not got the money to pay his Kingfisher employees and that too for over 8 months todate. N. Srinivasan who is a member of the IPL governing council and the President Elect of the BCCI while also owning an IPL franchise, indicates an obvious conflict of interest who was also involved in rigging the player auction in IPL 3. And finally the Ambanis, the biggest and known swindlers and looters ever of Modern India, they have a hand in almost all the big scams but nobody not even the Supreme Court of India has the gall to question them. So, on the basis of the above achievements of the franchise owners, what should the public expect from it's players? The 3 arrested players have not even achieved even 1% of what these franchise owners have done by looting the country!!

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This is from an article response How is it that these 3 players arrested for spot fixing betrayed the country??? They are not playing for their national team but for a franchise club called the Rajasthan Royals and the IPL statistics are not even internationally recognised. Rajasthan Royals who themselves have been accused of money laundering for the past few years. Likewise, the Punjab Kings XI who were also grilled by ED for money laundering. Kolkata Knight Riders also accused on money laundering as Shahrukh Khan the owner of the club (a prominent News channel had reported in 2011) is a close friend of HASAN ALI (The Biggest Tax evader and CROOK of INDIA and associated with many Terrorist Organisations). Pune Warriors who is owned by a born loser and looter called Subrata Roy who has swindled billions from poor investors. Royal Challengers Bangalore whose owner has millions to pay the RCB players and billions for Formula One but has not got the money to pay his Kingfisher employees and that too for over 8 months todate. N. Srinivasan who is a member of the IPL governing council and the President Elect of the BCCI while also owning an IPL franchise, indicates an obvious conflict of interest who was also involved in rigging the player auction in IPL 3. And finally the Ambanis, the biggest and known swindlers and looters ever of Modern India, they have a hand in almost all the big scams but nobody not even the Supreme Court of India has the gall to question them. So, on the basis of the above achievements of the franchise owners, what should the public expect from it's players? The 3 arrested players have not even achieved even 1% of what these franchise owners have done by looting the country!!
Next defence will be we are ruled by a corrupt Congress Govt thus any fixing by Indian players is no big deal. :hatsoff:
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Guys turns out Rahane and Hodge were not the players lured. they were sid trivedi, Cooper and Brad Hogg.

It has also emerged that the arrested bookies tried to lure three players, including two foreigners, with the help of Chandila, to be part of the spot-fixing racket. The players - Brad Hogg, Kevin Cooper and Siddharth Trivedi - however, spurned their invite to join a party at Jaipur for clinching the deal, the sources said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/spot-fixing-hits-ipl-6/news/More-players-IPL-matches-under-scanner-in-IPL-spot-fixing-probe/articleshow/20109224.cms
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My opinion is that this is a simple and easy way for police walas to threaten every year, gather some evidence and leave enough room so no one can get convicted. They did the same last year. First they said that they have audios and videos and now it seems police has nothing. Why would Sree confess and do the time when he probably knows many other players and officials who are corrupt, why wouldn't he spill it out ? That's why nothing will happen

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Thats how stupid the logic in the above comment was.
The comment in the article is not absolving the three players from the spot fixing charges but rather pointing out to discrepancies from other teams in different capacities which needs to be scrutinized as much if not more as the current spot fixing incident.
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Show evidence, says Sreesanth's lawyer If the former India [ Images ] pacer and Rajasthan Royals [ Images ] player’s close friends and lawyer are to be believed, it would seem so. A close friend of Sreesanth says the police have failed to produce any substantial evidence against the Kerala [ Images ] cricketer. “Sreesanth has not confessed anything to the Delhi Police; that story is completely wrong! In fact, the Delhi Police is now wondering whether Sreesanth did anything wrong to be arrested, because there is nothing they can prove against him,” he told Rediff.com on Friday. The bowler’s lawyer, Deepak Prakash, said he met Sreesanth twice, on Friday morning and again in the evening, and is convinced that the police were wrong in making the arrest since there is hardly any evidence against him. Sreesanth has now moved a Delhi court seeking a copy of the FIR against him. “The accused should be told about the grounds of arrest,” Prakash said. A special cell of the Delhi police arrested the India pacer and his Rajasthan Royals teammates, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, for allegedly indulging in spot-fixing in at least three IPL matches as per arrangements with bookies who have underworld connections abroad. According to the police, Sreesanth, who allegedly received Rs 40 lakh for spot-fixing during the Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab [ Images ] match on May 9 in Mohali, gave a signal to bookies by tucking a towel in his trousers to indicate he would concede a certain number of runs in his second over. It was also revealed that the pacer gave the bookies time to bet by warming up before coming on to bowl. He then went on to concede 13 runs in the second over of his spell. Sreesanth is believed to have told investigators of the Delhi Police’s special cell that there was nothing wrong in using a white towel and he used it in the past too in most matches he played. He claimed he is very superstitious and considers white lucky for him. “There have been instances in the past when things did not go well for Sreesanth in the first over after which he resorted to using the white hand towel. There are many matches in the past when he used the white towel in between,” said his lawyer. Prakash further added that Sreesanth’s stand has left the Delhi Police in a dilemma since they do not have enough evidence to back their claims against him. He also pointed out that there is no proof of any direct conversation in any medium between Sreesanth and bookies. Sreesanth is said to have told his interrogators that his friend Jiju Janardhan betrayed his trust and got him embroiled in this latest spot-fixing episode. Jiju is a good friend of Amit Singh, another alleged bookie who was among those arrested on Thursday. Having played domestic cricket for Gujarat together, they got friendly with Sreesanth. Born in Kerala, Janardan represented Gujarat in the Under-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy (1999-2000), Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy (2001-02) and the Under-22 Col CK Nayudu Trophy (2003-2005). He left Gujarat and tried his luck in Kerala in 2007, hoping his proximity to Sreesanth would get him into the Kerala Ranji Trophy team, but the move failed to materialise. A close family-friend of Sreesanth, who did not wish to be named, said Jiju was always after money and would do anything for it. “40 lakh is nothing for Sreesanth; after all, he gets 2.50 crore from Rajasthan Royals. For Jiju, this 40 lakh is big and he used the situation to his advantage without telling Sreesanth anything,” he said. “Sreesanth wasn’t aware of the conversation between Jiju and the bookies. Since Jiju knows that Sreesanth usually uses a white towel, he must have arranged a deal with the bookies for the same. He had been travelling with Sreesanth since the start of the IPL so he was aware of every little detail pertaining to him. “It’s true that Jiju and Sreesanth are long-time friends. They met at the MRF Pace Academy around 2005, and after Sree got into the Indian team, Jiju stuck to him. Sree always thought he was a friend who genuinely cared for him. “In fact, Sreesanth even caught him stealing one of his shirts. He has lots of costly, branded shirts. This was in 2011. In fact, this morning, Sreesanth’s mother recalled that one day Sree had been to Jiju's house and found many of his shirts there. When asked about it, Jiju said he had just taken them and would return them. She had warned him then to stay away from Jiju, but he told her he is his friend and continued to keep his company. Now he has to pay for it,” the friend added.
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