IPL spot-fixing timeline: From a shameful episode to a landmark judgement The Supreme Court delivered its verdict on the IPL spot-fixing case on Thursday, more than two years after Indian crickets most embarrassing episode broke out during IPL6. The Supreme Court delivered its verdict on the IPL spot-fixing case on Thursday, more than two years after Indian crickets most embarrassing episode broke out in May 2013 during IPL6. The landmark judgement saw the apex court banning any BCCI official, including N Srinivasan, with commercial interests while finding team officials Gurunath Meiyappan (Chennai Super Kings) and Raj Kundra (Rajasthan Royals) guilty of betting on IPL matches. The SC also appointed a three-member committee led by former Chief Justice RS Lodha to decide on the quantum of punishment to be handed to Meiyappan, Kundra and the two officials they are associated with. Heres a timeline of the IPL scandal: 1. May 21, 2013 Police arrests small-time Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh for his links with bookies. 2. May 23, 2013 The Mumbai Police summons Meiyappan for his links with bookies through Vindoo. 3. May 24, 2013 Meiyappan finally appears before Mumbai Police, followed by his arrest. That followed a knee-jerk reaction from India Cements and CSK, who deleted all mentions of Meiyappan from their documents, while denying that he was never the CSK Team Prinicipal, though he was often seen sitting in the teams dug-out and his accreditation card showed him as Team Prinicipal. Srinivasan called Meiyappan as just a cricket enthusiasts as the BCCI suspended him. 4. June 2, 2013 BCCI concludes that Srinivasan should step aside until the investigations are completed as the board appoints its own two-member committee of retired judges T Jayaram Chowta and T Balasubramainan to look into the allegations. 5. June 6, 2013 Delhi Police says Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra has confessed to betting. The BCCI suspends Kundra from the IPL pending inquiry. 6. June 11, 2013 Sreesanth and Chavan get bail from a Delhi court. On the same day, BCCIs Anti-Corruption and Security officer Ravi Sawani submits his interim report. 7. July 28, 2013 BCCIs two-member committee of retired judges Chowta and Subramaniam finds nothing against CSK, RR, Kundra and India Cements. That allowed Srinivasan to return as the BCCI president. 8. July 30, 2013 Cricket Association of Bihar chief Aditya Verma files a PIL against the BCCI in the Bombay High Court. The HC rules the BCCIs two-member probe panel as unconstitutional according to the BCCI constitution. 9. August 5, 2013 BCCI files a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Courts decision. The grounds of BCCIs SLP was that they are a private body, which holds HCs verdict untrue. The same was admitted by the SC two days later. 10. August 30, 2013 Supreme Court sends notices to Rajasthan Royals, India Cements and BCCI based on Vermas PIL. 11. September 9, 2013 Chandila gets bail. 12. September 13, 2013 BCCI bans accused RR players. Sreesanth and Chavan were slapped with life bans and Amit Singh banned for five years. Siddhath Trivedi, who was found guilty of not reporting an approach for spot-fixing, was banned for one year. Spinner Harmeet Singh was cleared with no evidence against him. 13. September 29, 2013 Supreme Court permits Srinivasan to contest BCCI elections, but stops him from assuming BCCI office, pending the probe. 14. October 7, 2014 Supreme Court appoints a Justice Mukul Mudgal-led commission to look into the IPL controversy. The commission also included N Nageshwar Rao, Nilay Dutta besides Mudgal himself. 15. February 10, 2014 The Mudal commission submits its report to the Supreme Court. It found Meiyappan involved in betting. But the biggest shock was that it named a few India players involved in the scandal, including one who was part of the 2011 World Cup squad. The names were not disclosed and kept under wraps in a sealed envelope in courts custody. Court was adjourned until March 7. 16. March 7, 2014 BCCI files an affidavit admitting Meiyappan was part of the CSK franchise as an official. But the board held firm against the suspension of Chennai franchise on the basis that the franchise agreement talks about the wrongdoings of an owner and not an official. The envelope remained sealed as the SC adjourned the matter until March 25. 17. March 25, 2014 The Supreme Court suggests the BCCI that Srinivasan should step down to allow a fair probe into the IPL scandal, calling it nauseating with Srinivasan as BCCI head. The court gives BCCI two days time to decide, but Srinivasan refuses to budge and decides to fight a legal battle. 18. March 27, 2014 The Supreme Court proposed the BCCI that Sunil Gavaskar should be named as the interim chief of the Indian cricket board and Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals suspended from IPL 7. 19. April 16, 2014 Srinivasans request to be allowed re-entry to BCCI was refused by the Supreme Court that revealed Srinivasans name features in the Mudgal committees report, 20. April 22, 2014 The Supreme court asked the Mudgal committee to continue probe focusing on the 13 names mentioned in the report. 21. April 29, 2014 BCCI requested appointment of a new panel saying that finings of the Mudgal committee were erroneous; however, it was rejected by SC. 22. June 8, 2014 Sourav Ganguly was asked to join Mudgal committee as an expert on cricket affairs to help in investigations. 23. July 18, 2014 Sunil Gavaskar was relieved from his duties as the interim BCCI president for IPL affairs. Shivlal Yadav was asked to continue in his role of interim BCCI chief for non-IPL matters. 24. September 1, 2014 Mudgal committee was given a two-month extension by the Supreme Court to submit their final report, while barring Srinivasans re-entry to the Indian cricket board until the conclusion of the investigation. 25. November 3, 2014 The Mudgal committee submitted its final report to the SC in a sealed envelope. 26. November 14, 2014 The names of Srinivasan and his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan were mentioned in the final report of the Mudgal committee. Also named were IPL CEO Sundar Raman and co-owner of the Rajasthan Royals Raj Kundra. During the hearing, the judge accidentally read out three player names in the report, which followed an order to not reveal those names in the media. Those three players were lated cleared of any mischief. 27. November 17, 2014 Some of the findings of the Mudgal committee were revealed, wherein Srinivasan was given a clean chit in betting and fixing, but found guilty of inaction, along with four other BCCI officials, despite being aware of violation of an IPL Players Code of Conduct. It also mentioned that Raman met a bookie eight times during an IPL season, while charging Kundra for being in contact with bookies. 28. November 18, 2014 BCCI threw its wait behind Srinivasan and Raman. The Working Committee rubbished allegations against Srinivasan as baseless while deciding to support Raman in fighting his case. 29. November 21, 2014 An affidavit was submitted by the BCCI against the allegations made against Srinivasan in the Mudgal report. Srinivasan then himself filed an affidavit requesting to be reinstated as BCCI president. Meanwhile, India Cements, the company that owns Chennai Super Kings, requesting the apex court that the franchise should not be punished as a whole for wrongoings of one individual, i.e., Meiyappan. 30. November 24, 2014 SC askes strong questions to Srinivasan - telling him to explain why his role as a BCCI administrator and owne of an IPL franchise at the same time is not conflict of interest. 31. November 25, 2014 Petitioner Aditya Verma requests SC to make the findings of Mudgal report public, but the court turned it down. 32. November 27, 2014 The SC dropped a bomb observing that the India Cements-owned CSK franchise should be scrapped with immediate effect. 33. December 8, 2014 Taking all circumstances in account, it is very difficult to accept your [Srinivasans] contention that there is no conflict of interest. You being MD of India Cements, India Cements owning Chennai Super Kings (CSK), an official of CSK involved in betting and you heading the BCCI, the SC said during the hearing. 34. December 9, 2014 SC rejects BCCIs four-point action plan to punish those found guilty in the spot-fixing case, stating that only an independent body can deliver justice and appropriate punishment. 35. December 10, 2014 Another request made by Srinivasan, to allow him to contest BCCI elections, But the SC asked BCCI to postopone the elections until January 31, 2015. 36. December 15, 2104 The SC questioned Ramans role as to why he did not act and watched the fun from the sidelines when he was aware of betting activities by officials. By doing so, the court found Raman party to the offence. 37. December 16, 2014 SC tightened the noose around SC saying there is not room for conflict of interest in function of the BCCI or IPL. The court asked the board to provide a list of its administrators who have commercial interests in the IPL or CLT20. 38. December 17, 2014 BCCI, to the surprise of many, named Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri in the conflict of interest list. 39. January 22, 2015 1. Meiyappan, Kundra found guilty of betting. 2. Srinivasan cleared on cover-up allegations, but guilty of conflict of interest. 3. SC struck down Rule 6.2.4 of the BCCI Constitution, which allowed board officials to own a team. 4. Srinivasan cant stand for BCCI elections until he disowns CSK. 5. BCCI told to hold elections in the next 6 weeks. 6. SC appoints three-member panel to decide on the quantum of punishment for Meiyappan, Kundra, CSK and RR. its all happening last18months in IPL episode spot-fixing
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