The Hindu : Fleming's shoot for 'liquor' ad irks police

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Wednesday, Oct 08, 2003

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Fleming's shoot for 'liquor' ad irks police

Ahmedabad Oct. 7. Raising the hackles of the Gujarat police, the New Zealand cricket captain, Stephen Fleming, had ventured to a dam site in Rajkot reportedly for shooting an advertisement for a liquor company "without any security" on October 5, after the end of a three-day match against India `A'.

According to information reaching here, soon after the match ended, Fleming reportedly left for the Aaji dam site for an advertisement film shoot. Further, it came at a time when the Gujarat Government had declared `prohibition week' on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on October 2.

"He had gone somewhere... But we are not aware where and why. He had neither taken any security person along nor had he asked for any security," the Rajkot Police Commissioner, Sanjay Srivastav, told PTI over phone today.

The New Zealand team management has denied that Fleming had gone to shoot for a liquor brand and asserted that its players were not allowed to advertise for liquor in their country.

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