The DCB had sought ten-day police remand on grounds that Kalgi had established links with Pakistan-based bookies and even invited high-profile clients for gambling on several
occasions.
The metropolitan court magistrate, GM Patel, rejected the police remand application of international cricket bookie Dinesh Babu Thakkar alias Dinesh Kalgi sought by detection of crime branch (DCB).
The DCB had sought ten-day police remand on grounds that Kalgi had established links with Pakistan-based bookies and even invited high-profile clients for gambling on several occasions.
The DCB officials had earlier sought Kalgi’s remand stating that it wanted to interrogate him since he is the main person behind cricket betting in Gujarat. The crime branch officials also said that Kalgi had close connection with Rajendra alais Raju Rana, Haresh Manilal Gajjar, Chetan Upadhyay, Dushyanat Kusamgar and Santosh Pattidar who were arrested by crime branch for cricket betting.
At the time when the cricket betting racket was busted, many persons were arrested and mobile phones and SIM cards seized. The crime branch officials pleaded that they have still to interrogate whether Kalgi had given them the SIM cards to help police in the case or if the police managed to procure them.
The court rejected DCB plea for custodial interrogation of Kalgi on the plea of Kalgi’s advocate Mitesh Amin, who said that Kalgi had got anticipatory bail from session court.
On behalf of his client, Amin also pleaded that
Kalgi would cooperate with the detection of crime branch whenever he is summoned for interrogation. Amin pleaded that Kalgi is ready to cooperate with DCB officials and can be called for interrogation anytime between 11 am and 5 pm in the next 10 days.
Earlier, the DCB officials sought Kalgi’s remand, claiming that Kalgi is the chief of all the bookies in Gujarat, and has always had information about the outcome of cricket matches much before the match is actually played.
The crime branch also pleaded that several international calls to Pakistan were made from the mobile phones recovered from the apartment from where two of Kalgi’s aides, Haresh Gajjar and Chetan Upadhyay, were arrested.
Both of them have made startling disclosures to the police about Kalgi’s wide network and the extent of his business. Kalgi got involved in gambling three decades back and gradually emerged as a dominant force in the national cricket betting circuit. He is also in touch with bookies abroad.
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