Justice Mukul Mudgal committee submits IPL spot-fixing scandal report to Supreme Court

The Justice Mukul Mudgal committee submitted its report into the spot-fixing probe to the Supreme Court in a sealed envelope on Friday. 

The report has been submitted in sealed cover to SC, can’t say a word about it: Jstc Mukul Mudgal on IPL probe report pic.twitter.com/mmFaugsQlJ

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The task of submitting the envelope has now been assigned to a senior lawyer instead of Gopal Subramaniam, who had acted as an amicus curiae for the Supreme Court earlier.

The hearing in the matter is scheduled for October 1. The panel met in Chennai on Wednesday and Thursday to give the report a final shape. It is believed that former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly decided to give the meeting a miss but recorded his views.

Previously also, Justice Mudgal had investigated the IPL 2013 betting and spot-fixing scandal after the Supreme Court asked him to. The apex court had turned down the request by Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) panel and had asked Mudgal to investigate to which Mudgal had agreed.

Three players from IPL teams Chennai Super Kings and two each from Delhi Daredevils and Mumbai Indians figure in the confidential report submitted by Mudgal panel. Many more names are expected to crop up after current ICC President N Srinivasan's and a leading commentator's name came up during investigation.

There is so much surety regarding Srinivasan's strong involvement that tainted IPL commissioner Lalit Modi in a media report said that if the former goes scot-free after the probe then he will call it curtains on his career as a cricket administrator.

The committee report on betting and match fixing in the IPL mentioned about the involvement of Gurunath Meiyappan, the son-in-law of BCCI president N Srinivasan, in betting and leaking confidential match related information.