Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) interim President, Jagmohan Dalmiya, leaves after addressing a press conference in New Delhi on June 10, 2013. The co-owner of Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals which is at the heart of a betting and spot-fixing scandal has been suspended from the game pending an inquiry, a top Indian official said. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) called an emergency meeting at a luxury hotel in New Delhi on Monday to discuss the Rajasthan Royals and their co-owner Raj Kundra.
Mumbai: An embattled Raj Kundra, co-owner of Rajasthan Royals team, who is facing accusations of betting on IPL matches, today claimed innocence and said he would be willing to forfeit his shares in the franchise if found guilty.
I was called by Delhi Police since I am a minority shareholder of Rajasthan Royals and a few questions were put to me to which I have satisfactorily answered, Kundra, husband of actress Shilpa Shetty, said in a statement. I would like to reiterate that I am innocent and equally anxious to know as to what went wrong within the Rajasthan Royals. In case anything is established against me I shall be willing to forfeit my shares in Rajasthan Royals, he said.
Rajasthan Royals owner Raj Kundra on Thursday admitted to betting on his team for two years in the IPL. This news was confirmed by Delhi police chief Neeraj Kumar, while his wife Shilpa Shetty lambasted the media on Twitter saying the reports were untrue.
Later Kundra said that he would make an official statement, warning the media not to 'misconstrue silence for guilt'. Be as it may however, Kundra's confession now means that his team, the Rajasthan R
We first heard of Kundra when Shetty, an already established Bollywood actress, announced that she was going to marry him.
Raj Kundra's confession to the cops that he was involved in placing bets on IPL matches may have saved him. The Delhi Police chief has said that they have been unable to gather enough evidence against the co-owner of the Rajasthan Royals, but though he may not have been arrested so far, he isn't off the hook completely yet.
Supposing we had him on tape while making a bet or making a transaction and we had recovered the money,then it was a different matter. Here is a situation where he come to us and confessed. It is not admissible in a court of law, the Delhi police chief toldCNN-IBN in an exclusive interview.
If we had something more like in case of Sreesanth then it would be a different matter, Kumar said.
The police chief has said there was no question of applying provisions of the Gambling Act against Kundra since it was a 'weak act' and the case being investigated by the police was only concerned with spot-fixing in the IPL.
Despite the fact that Kundra was the co-owner of the team from which three players have been arrested for spot fixing, the Delhi top cop said that there was no evidence he had influenced any players.
Indian Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra during the inauguration of a furniture showroom by actors Sunil and Mana Shetty in Mumbai on January 12, 2013.
Indian Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty (R) poses with her husband Raj Kundra (C) and her sister Samita Shetty (L)as they attend the 70th Birthday celebrations of Bollywood Actor Amitabh Bachchan in Mumbai on October 10, 2012.
