India moves UK high court for extradition of bookie Sanjeev Chawla

November 08, 2017 19:52

India has moved Britain's high court against a lower court's decision to reject its request to extradite UK-based alleged bookie Sanjeev Kumar Chawla, a key accused in the cricket match-fixing scandal during South Africa's tour of India in 2000.

The Crown Prosecution Service has sought the appeal from the UK High Court on behalf of the Indian authorities.

District Judge Rebecca Crane had discharged the accused after a Westminster Magistrates' Court hearing last month on human rights grounds over severe conditions in Delhi's Tihar

Jail where he was to be held on being extradited.

The District Judge, in her October 16 judgment, had noted that she was satisfied there was a prima facie case against Chawla over his role in the fixing of "cricket matches played between India and South Africa during the tour of the South African cricket team to India under the captainship of Hansie Cronje in February-March 2000."

According to court documents, Delhi-born Chawla had moved to the UK on a business visa in 1996, where he has been based while making trips back and forth to India.

After his Indian passport was revoked in 2000, the 50-year-old obtained a UK passport in 2005 and is now a British citizen.

In details of the case that emerged during the hearing, Chawla was introduced to Hansie Cronje, the late South African cricket team captain, in January-February 2000.

It was suggested to Cronje, by Chawla and another person, that he could make significant amount of money if he agreed to lose cricket matches.

Money was paid to Cronje at the time of the pending South African tour to India.

-- PTI

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