A four-member Mumbai crime branch team on Sunday conducted an exhaustive search at the Chennai home of BCCI president N. Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, whose role in IPL betting and nexus with bookies and their agents is being investigated.
The items seized include Mr Meiyappan’s IPL/CSK identity card, letterpads, CSK envelopes and T-shirts. The police also seized a diary and some documents, and is now going through them. Mr Meiyappan was called Chennai Super Kings’ owner/team principal by India Cements till his arrest Friday night, after which he is being described as honorary team management member. Sunday’s search began around 9.40 am and ended just before 6 pm.
The Mumbai police zeroed in on him after actor Vindoo Dara Singh, arrested over a betting racket, confessed to his links with Mr Meiyappan. “The things (it) picked up shows it wanted to find out in what capacity Meiya-ppan was involved in running CSK,” a source said.