Javed Chhotani alias Doctor is a Pak TT player and bookie who plots match & spot-fixing for D-Company.
Top Pakistani bookie Javed Chhotani, who enjoys close proximity with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Anees, has been actively connected with sports as a player and an administrator for a long time. According to the Mumbai police, Chhotani — known as Doctor in the betting circle — was a table tennis player in Pakistan and was associated with the table tennis association there.
dna on May 18 was the first to report that Doctor controls Pakistani bookies. “Arrested bookie Tinku Delhi told us that Doctor is friends with Anees Ibrahim. He has a plush house in Karachi as well as Dubai,” said a police officer. Joint commissioner of police (crime) Himanshu Roy recently revealed that Doctor met Tinku at hotels in Dubai thrice in the past.
Mumbai crime branch sources said Doctor’s name surfaced during the interrogation of bookie Ramesh Vyas, who was coordinating telephone lines connecting Indian and Pakistani bookies.
As per information provided by arrested bookies, betting business in Pakistan is not as booming as it is in India. Therefore, the Pakistani bookies had to pay advance money to gain entry into the Indian betting market. “They had given advance money to Tinku and wanted bookies Devendra Kothari and Jupiter,” said a police source.
Meanwhile, Vindoo Dara Singh on Thursday visited the crime branch office and claimed that neither Gurunath Meiyappan nor he were involved in spot-fixing in the IPL. “Those involved in the case are still inside the lock-up. I am waiting for the day when the court will say that I am not guilty of anything,” Vindoo said.
The actor wondered why the police did not act against those politicians and their children who are involved in betting. “To end this menace, the police should arrest the bookies involved,” he said, adding that cricketers were his friends and that he did not speak speak to them about “anything else”.
When bail is jail
A day after Ramesh Vyas, one of the alleged bookies in the IPL spot-fixing case, filed a court complaint that jail authorities were refusing to release him even after he was granted bail, the metropolitan magistrate court on Thursday maintained that his detention is not illegal. While rejecting his application, it said the jail authorities are abiding by the orders of the additional sessions court in Delhi. According to a fax sent by the Delhi court to the Mumbai jail authorities, Vyas has to appear before it on June 7 in connection with the Delhi police’s case, and the jail officials have been told to put all security measures in place to have him safely escorted there.
Royal pains
The Royals face suspension from IPL for up to five years. Delhi cops claim team owner Raj Kundra bet on matches in the last three IPLs, while wife Shilpa Shetty bet on one this season. Lady Luck didn’t smile on Kundra, though; he lost Rs1 crore on bets.
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