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Raid on house of Delhi police officer

Devesh K. Pandey

Ishwar Singh had exposed match-fixing

NEW DELHI: A top police officer who once brought name and fame to the Delhi police has been accused of corruption. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday raided the Vasant Kunj residence of Inspector Ishwar Singh, the man who exposed the murky match-fixing racket involving some South African players. Following the raid, the Delhi police tonight transferred Mr. Ishwar Singh to the Foreign Regional Registration Office from the Tughlak Road police station.

During raids conducted simultaneously at his house and those of his brother-in-law Mahipal Singh and father-in-law at Jind in Haryana, the CBI sleuths allegedly recovered cash and documents pertaining to assets worth Rs. 75 lakhs.

According to the CBI, Rs. 1.07 lakhs and documents of a bank balance of Rs. 1.6 lakhs were recovered from Mr. Ishwar Singh's house. The sleuths also came across papers of his Vasant Kunj flat valued at about Rs. 40 lakhs, and those pertaining to investments of about Rs. 7 lakhs in property. This apart, the CBI is also probing his alleged investments in a petrol pump being run in partnership with his in-laws at Jind. He has not yet been arrested.

It was on April 7, 2000 that the Crime Branch claimed to have in its possession at least a dozen tapes containing conversations between the then South African captain, Hanse Cronje, and an alleged match-fixer, Sanjeev Chawla, who was then in London, indicating that a one-day series between India and South Africa was rigged.And the complainant on whose statement a case was registered at Chanakyapuri police station was Ishwar Singh. He had discovered the nexus between cricketers and bookies, including Sanjeev's friend Rajesh Kalra, while probing an extortion case.

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