Mumbai, May 25:  Mumbai police on Friday night arrested Gurunath Meiyappan, BCCI chief N Srinivasan’s son-in-law, over his involvement in the betting-scandal that has rocked the domestic T20 league. At five minutes to midnight, Mumbai’s joint commissioner of police (crime),

Himanshu Roy, informed the media about the arrest of the Chennai Super Kings team principal, the first team owner to be picked up. “We have interrogated Gurunath. Based on information from the interrogation, we find his involvement in the offence which we have registered. He would now be placed under arrest,” Roy said.

Meiyappan arrived at the commissioner’s office compound at 8.55pm and was escorted inside. Initial reports had said Meiyappan was proving a tough nut and refusing to answer his interrogators’ questions.

A team of officers from the Mumbai crime branch questioned him on a pre-decided line of investigation, including whether he passed on information on team strategies to bookies. Roy said: “We summoned Meiyappan based on the information that we gathered during Vindoo’s interrogation.”

Earlier in the day, with Meiyappan’s links to bookies bringing the fixing spotlight close to CSK, team owner India Cements seemed to feel the heat. Before he landed in Mumbai, it released a statement saying: “Meiyappan is neither owner, nor CEO or team principal of CSK. He is only one of the members (honorary) of CSK’s management team.”

Meanwhile, in Hyderabad, police arrested a Bollywood spot boy in connection with the fixing case minutes before he was to take a flight to Dubai.