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Srinagar | June 21, 2013, Friday
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JAMMU & KASHMIR CORPORATE LEAGUE
IPL fixing: Chandila Stampede over David Beckham injures 7
sent to judicial
custody till July 2
New Delhi, June 20: Suspended cricketer Ajit Chandila
was today remanded to 12 days
of judicial custody by a Delhi
court after police said that his
custodial interrogation in the
IPL spot-fixing case was over.
Chandila, who has been
quizzed in custody for three
days, was produced before
vacation judge Rajender
Kumar Shastri who sent him
to Tihar jail till July 2.
"The accused (Chandila)
is remanded in JC till July 2,"
the court said.
Chandila was sent to jail
after the Delhi police special cell
told the court that they do not
require his further custody.
The police, however, said
the investigation is on.
Chandila was handed over
to the probe agency again after
the police had invoked stringent Maharashtra Control of
Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA)
and sought his custodial interrogation on the ground that it
wanted to corroborate the evidence collected so far from other
accused in the case.
The Delhi Police had on
May 16 arrested three cricketers -- S Sreesanth, Chandila
Ajit Chandila
and Ankeet Chavan of Rajasthan Royal's -- on charges
of spot-fixing. Later, the trio
were on May 28 sent to judicial custody till June 18.
However, the Delhi
Police on June 3 had slapped
MCOCA on Sreesanth, Chandila, Chavan and 25 others in
the case, alleging they were
acting under the command of
underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Chhota Shakeel.
The sessions court had
granted bail to Sreesanth,
Chavan and 18 others due to
lack of evidence to be charged
under MCOCA. Sreesanth's
friend Abhishek Shukla,
arrested for allegedly removing the cricketer's money and
articles from his hotel room
in Mumbai, was granted bail
by the magisterial court as the
police had failed to convince
that Shukla was a part of the
IPL spot-fixing scandal.
Besides Chandila, bookies
Sunil Bhatia, Ramesh Vyas,
Firoz Ansari, Deepak Kumar
and ex-Ranji player Babu Rao
Yadav are also in judicial custody till July 2.
At present, one bookie Ashwani Aggarwal is in Mumbai
police custody, for whom the
Delhi court has issued a production warrant for June 22.
Apart from Chandila,
Bhatia and Vyas, the others
whose bail pleas will be heard
on June 22 are bookies Ashwani and Deepak Kumar and
player Baburao Yadav.
Earlier, Delhi police, while
opposing Chandila's bail plea,
had said he was a "key conspirator" in the entire IPL
spot-fixing case and was acting
at the behest of a syndicate run
by Dawood Ibrahim. PTI
Beijing, June 20: Fans
eager to see football
superstarDavid Beckham
stormed a police cordon on
Thursday in a stampede at
a Shanghai universitythat
injured seven people including five security personnel.
Three police officers,
two university security
guards and two students
including a Japanese
student were injured,
Shanghai police said on its
official microblog.
Nearly 1,000 fans had
gathered at a stadium in
Shanghai Tongji University, where the retired
star was to meet members
of the university team,
according to the state-run
news site Xinmin Net.
Upon Beckham's arrival, fans stormed through a
gate and broke through a
line formed by police and
guards, Xinmin said.
Photos and video footage show people pushed
onto the ground, shoes
scattered and a uniformed
woman being carried away
her face covered in blood.
"Too crazy," said Chu
Dan, a Tongji University
football player who was
hoping to have "some interaction on the pitch" with
Beckham. "But we didn't
expect so many people
showing up here too many
fans of Beckham."
The event was canceled, and Shanghai police
said they were investigat-
ing the incident.
A post on Beckham's
microblog on the popular
Chinese-language platform
Sina Weibo wishes the
injured speedy recoveries
and expresses regret for the
cancellation. "It was impossible to get through the
massive crowds," it reads.
Beckham is in China
this week on a seven-day
promotional tour for the
Chinese Super League,
China's top league. He has
been hired as an "image
ambassador" to promote
the sport. Agencies
Saina reaches
Singapore
Open quarters
Singapore, June 20: Saina Nehwal
came from a game down to beat
Eriko Hirose and enter the women's singles quarterfinals at Singapore Open Super Series badminton event on Thursday.
Saina, who slipped to number
four in world rankings released on
Thursday, had to dig deep against
the Japanese before earning a
16-21, 21-16, 21-9 win. The contest
lasted a little over one hour.
With Thursday's success, Saina
levelled her head-to-head record
with the World No. 11 to 3-3. She
plays Indonesia's Lindaweni Fanetri
in the last eight stage Friday.
B Sai Praneeth, however, lost to
12th-ranked Chong Wei Feng 11-21,
21-17, 16-21 in the pre-quarterfinals. The World No. 45 had upset
second seed Yun Hu of Hong Kong
Wednesday.
The mixed doubles pair of
Arun Vishnu and Aparna Balan
went down against Praveen
Jordan and Vita Marissa of Indonesia 10-21, 18-21.
Akshay Dewalkar and Pranav Jerry
Chopra were shown the door by Chinese Taipei's Yoo Seon Yong and Shin
Baek Choel 14-21, 19-21. Agencies
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