Lawyers of pacer S. Sreesanth and his IPL teammates Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan have claimed that the players were innocent and accused the Delhi Police of “wrongly trapping” them in the IPL spot-fixing case.
A day after the Indian pacer, Chandila and Chavan were remanded to five days police custody along with 11 bookies, their lawyers questioned the police action and accused the cops of following illegal procedure against them by arresting them without any evidence.
“He (Sreesanth) never talked to any bookie. He never received any money and he has no connection with any person involved in this case. He explained to me everything. He explained me that he was never involved in this case. He is completely innocent and there was no phone call with any bookie or any person involved in this case,” Sreesanth’s lawyer Deepak Prakash said here on Friday.
He said that he met Sreesanth and he is “perfectly okay and completely relaxed”. The lawyer also said that there is no question of Sreesanth confessing since he has not committed any crime. Advocate Rajiv Shankar Dwivedi, who appeared in the court on Chandila and Chauhan’ behalf, also took a similar stand, claiming that they were completely innocent.
“They have nothing to do with this controversy. All illegal and wrongful procedures were adopted by the police to trap them. The police have no evidence against them. They have been wrongly trapped,” he said. Sreesanth and two other cricketers were arrested in a post-midnight operation in Mumbai by the Delhi Police for spot-fixing in IPL matches for payments of upto `60 lakhs just for giving away pre-determined number of runs in an over.