Gurugram: Two people, including the former Bowler clean with the Indian Premier League Cricket Team (IPL), was arrested by economic wings (EOW) on Thursday for allegedly cheating some young crickets by promising their places in the country team and on the Internet Domestic T20 Cricket League sessions through their “connection”.
Mirza Denmark Anand (29), who also played at Cricket Under-19 for West Bengal, and Anurag Kumar (30), a Yoga instructor in Haridwar, was arrested as part of a monthly probe, police said.
So far, six people, including the owner of the Uttarakhand Cricking Academy, has been arrested in this case.
More than 14 candidates for Cricketers, police said, had been cheated at least RS 1.3 Crore by the defendant.
“Anand and Anurag were arrested after police found a trace of financial transactions in their accounts,” Sub-Inspector of Umesh Chand, who was an investigator officer from EOW, said.
Mirza Denmark and Anurag, both of them came from Uttar Pradesh, had played together at the club level in Delhi and was related to that time.
Kumar, police said, has played cricket at the district level for Delhi and Rajasthan too.
The two men, according to the researchers, were also related to the defendant who was arrested in this case.
The fraud was revealed on August 24 after Anshul Raj, a new Palam Vihar resident, filed a complaint at the Sector 50 police station, alleged that safe corporate management (SCM), who claimed to work with several cricket bodies, had deceived him from Rs 10 Lakh by convincing him About selection in the state cricket team.
This case was transferred to EOW, which on September 4 arrested the Director of SCM – Ashutosh Bora, Chitra Bora, and Nitin Jha – from a five-star hotel in Gurgaon.
During their interrogation, the police claimed, the names of around 8-9 people associated with several cricket agencies Assam, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Bihar and Himachal Pradesh have emerged.
EOW has issued a notice to them all who asked them to take an investigation.
During the probe, the police found that the defendant had been transferred around Rs 10 Lakh to the Kulbeer’s account, which had a cricket academy in Uttarakhand.
Prayed was arrested on September 30.
Meanwhile, Chitra Bora has transferred the guarantee application before the Punjab High Court and Haryana for health reasons.
The next hearing in this case is scheduled for November 9.