New Delhi, May 29: Delhi Police on Tuesday brought the angle of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in the IPL spot-fixing scandal in a Delhi court which sent cricketer S. Sreesanth to Tihar jail rejecting police’s plea for his custody for two more days.
Delhi Police had sought extension of Sreesanth’s police custody on the ground that immediately after his arrest in Mumbai, co-accused Jiju Janaradhan had offered one of their common friends Abhishek Shukla `2 lakh to clean the cricketer’s hotel room.
Sreesanth was remanded in judicial custody till June 4, when his bail application will come up for hearing. “Sreesanth will be lodged in Jail number one,” police sources said.
Besides Sreesanth, the court has also sent Ajit Chandila, bookies Ashwani Aggarwal and Chandresh Patel to Tihar jail till June 4, after the police said that their custodial interrogation was complete. The court also denied bail to suspended cricketer Ankeet Chavan saying social stigma cannot be a ground to give him the relief. The plea for bail was sought on ground that his marriage is fixed for June 2.