IPL 2013 spot-fixing and betting scandal: Will push for report to be made public, says Aditya Verma

Aditya Verma: Will push for report to be made public

Dec 1, 2014

The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2013 spot-fixing and betting hearing in the Supreme Court has been adjourned till Monday, December 8, 2014. Cricket Association of Bihar secretary Aditya Verma spoke to the media after the day’s proceedings in the Supreme Court.

In a report on Times Now, Verma said, “Next Monday and Tuesday the court will hear on the matter and may also give the decision. The lawyers, Harish Salve and Nalini Chidambaram did the talk in the court today. Being a petitioner I cannot understand why the BCCI and N Srinivasan are objecting on the matters that have been found out. I believe all the documents that BCCI have submitted today; I can say that they were manufactured documents.”

Verma went on to say, “The court was also being tried to influence on the name of a current central minister. Mudgal Committee has given his report, then why is BCCI objecting? Why is BCCI not making the tainted officials and cricketers’ name in public? I am saddened and next Monday and through my lawyer I will push for the report to be made public.”

He continued, “The cricket governing body in the country is saving the players, officials and Srinivasan. When the committee has given the report to the Supreme Court then why the names should not be made public? On Monday I will push for the report to be made public but those who bring shame to cricket wouldn’t be spared. The court will clean up the game and I hope that Supreme Court will emerge as the winner, as a ‘Man of the Match.’”

Verma concluded by saying, “They are naming a central minister again and again and the court objected why are you trying to influence through a central minister? I cannot understand why are they trying to do so?”