Police in Delhi announced plans Friday to appeal a lower court’s verdict to clear former Test fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two teammates of spot-fixing during the Indian Premier League.
Special commissioner S. N. Srivastava said police had carefully studied the observations made by the trial court and decided to file an appeal before the end of this month.
“The court has appreciated our efforts in bringing forth the contamination in sport especially in the IPL,” Srivastava said.
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“We have sufficient evidence to go for an appeal.”
The players were acquitted only because of a lack of a specific law to deal with a crime such as spotfixing, he added.
Sreesanth and two of his teammates from the Rajasthan Royals franchise, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, were arrested in May 2013 along with scores of bookies as part of a police investigation into allegations that players had underperformed in return for cash.