Mumbai, June 7: Jagmohan Dalmiya, India's interim cricket chief, announced today that the organisation will meet on Monday to discuss allegations that Raj Kundra, the co-owner of an Indian Premier League (IPL) team placed illegal bets worth a crore over the last three years.
Kundra, who is one of the owners of the Rajasthan Royals, allegedly confessed his gambling to the Delhi Police, which interrogated him on Wednesday. Dalmiya is serving as the interim head of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). He is filling in for N Srinivasan, who has stepped aside till an investigation is completed into the betting and spot-fixing scandal that has engulfed the country's top domestic competition.
Royals' owner Raj Kundra bet Rs. 1 crore in three years, say cops
Among those arrested so far are Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, an executive with IPL team Chennai Super Kings, and three cricketers from the Rajasthan Royals.