Sreesanth's father tells the Malayala Manorama news channel that he was trapped because of a conspiracy by MS Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh, reports Firstpost.com

"Ever since he spoke out against Harbhajan on Twitter, the two decided to take him out," his father said.

Sreesanth was very close to Dhoni and knew many of his personal details, his father said, without explicitly saying what it had to do with this case. "Dhoni had threatened him that he would never be taken back in the test side," his father said.

"He is innocent, this is a conspiracy to defame him," his mother told CNN-IBN.