TIL Desk Sports/ Banned cricketer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, who was earlier arrested in connection with the 2013 spot-fixing scandal claimed in the Supreme Court that he had made the confession about his involvement in the alleged crime as Delhi Police had threatened that his family members would be implicated and tortured.
Taking into account his submissions made through his lawyer, the apex court questioned him why he had not immediately brought it to the notice of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that he was being approached for alleged spot-fixing during the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2013. The apex court observed that the conduct of Sreesanth, facing a life ban, in the entire episode was ‘not good’.
Sreesanth, who was discharged by a trial court in 2015 in a criminal case related to alleged spot-fixing, told a bench of justices Ashok Bhushan and K M Joseph that life ban imposed on him by BCCI is harsh and there is no evidence to substantiate the claim that he indulged in any illegality. “The police had threatened me that my family members would be tortured and implicated unless I confess,” senior advocate Salman Khurshid, appearing for Sreesanth, told the court on Wednesday.
