After grilling Sharma, Madhavan doesn’t rule out summoning more

Madhavan said he would now examine the statements made by five cricket players and administrators and submit his report to the BCCI on November 25.

“The same report would come up for discussion during the Board’s meeting in Calcutta on November 29 where they would decide on the future course of action,” he added.

However, he made it clear that the BCCI had the powers of not accepting the report in toto.

Asked whether he would be summoning players like Kapil Dev or Navjot Sidhu, who have been given a clean chit by CBI, Madhavan said, “Let me complete the study of entire statements and re-examine the CBI report… I do not rule out the possibility of summoning any other player.”

Meanwhile, Samata Party president Jaya Jetley has said she did not believe in the contents of the CBI report on betting and match-fixing.

“Main nahi manti ki jo is report mein likha hai wo such hai (I do not believe about the contents of the report),” Jetley said, when asked about the allegations against Ajay Jadeja in Star TV’s Janata Ki Adalat, to be telecast tomorrow.

“What the CBI has written and what it has not, did those people (players, administrators and bookies) really say that or did not say it, K Madhavan is looking into it. If all of it is to be believed as true, then why was Madhavan asked to look into,” was Jetley’s reply, according to a press release by the TV channel.

About the report that she had prevented Income Tax officials from carrying out a raid on her house, Jetley said, “I never prevented them. They did not have a search warrant. In fact, they were under the impression that this was Jadeja’s house,” the release added.

She denied having influenced Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to change the portfolios of S S Dhindsa and Shahnawaz Hussain and said, “If I had been wielding so much influence, then why wouldn’t I be a minister today myself? And wouldn’t I have been in a position to protect Ajay Jadeja against all these charges?”