A person named Bunny Anand made an offer of Rs 40 lakhs to Sathish via Instagram.
The BCCI's new Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) chief Shabir Hussein Shekhadam Khandwawala doesn't want betting to be legalised in India as it encourages match-fixing and feels his biggest challenge will be stamping out 'shady activities' from smaller leagues.
On the first anniversary of the 26/11 attack on Mumbai, Gujarat Director General of Police S S Khandwawala said that the state police is fully equipped to thwart any terror attacks. "We are fully prepared and are also taking pereventive actions to counter any such incidents from taking place again," Khandwawala told reporters after paying tribute to those killed in the Mumbai attack last year.
The Gujarat police has been able to suppress the menace of Naxalism in its initial stages in the state, Director General of Police (DGP) S S Khandwawala said on Friday.
Additional Director General of Police (Training) S S Khandwawala was sentenced to five years imprisonment for beating up a detenu in police custody.
A social media post by Punjab Kings batsman Deepak Hooda, on Tuesday afternoon ahead of Punjab's match against Rajasthan Royals, will be checked by the ACU team to see if it breached anti-corruption guidelines.
Security has been beefed up across Gujarat as a precautionary measure after a woman claimed that she had seen the three Pakistani terrorists, who had escaped from Delhi on Friday, at a temple in Dakor town of Kheda district.
In the wake of the Pune blast, the Gujarat police is keeping a close watch over all the places in the state which US terror suspect David Headley's accomplice had visited in November 2008.
The Gujarat government on Saturday transferred the state's controversial Director General of Police P C Pande, who had come under cloud during the post-Godhra communal riots in 2002, apparently to preempt such a move by the Election Commission, ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. S S Khandwawala, who belongs to the minority community, was appointed as the new DGP. Ahmedabad Police Commissioner O P Mathur has also been shifted and replaced by H K Saikia.
The IPL, which was indefinitely suspended on Tuesday, had bookies plugging an accredited cleaner at Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla ground for doing 'pitch-siding' which helps ball-to-ball betting.
The move assumes significance as the government decided to go ahead with the formation of the search committee despite Congress leader in Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, boycotting meetings of the Lokpal selection panel.
The search committee will forward the names to the selection committee comprising the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of India or his nominee, Lok Sabha Speaker, the leader of the largest opposition party and an eminent jurist.
We present an excerpt from Kishore Kumar: Method In Madness by Derek Bose.
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