Batohi meets Delhi Police Commissioner
The Indian media watched the proceedings of the Justice King Commission in South Africa with keen interest for obvious reasons
Anand Vasu
18-Sep-2000
The Indian media watched the proceedings of the Justice King
Commission in South Africa with keen interest for obvious reasons.
When the action began to heat up, various television channels sent
their anchors to the scene of the action to provide live inputs.
And the anchors had a field day when they noticed that the Chief
Prosecutor of the commission was none other than Shamila Batohi.
As she was of Indian origin, every television channel did a feature story
on her. Well, she now brings the commission to India.
Batohi met with the Delhi Police Commissioner Ajay Raj Sharma at
police headquarters in New Delhi on Monday evening. The King
Commission has been asking for recordings of the Delhi police tapes
in which former South African captain Hansie Cronje is recorded as speaking
to an alleged bookie, Sanjeev Chawla, about throwing a
match. The primary objective of Batohi's visit is to share the
findings of the King Commission and also discuss the findings of
the Delhi police from their investigations.
It is particularly significant that Batohi is meeting the Delhi
police as it was they who opened the lid on the matchfixing investigations
with recordings of the conversations made allegedly
by Cronje. The chief prosecutor is also keen to get her hands on
the tapes that the Delhi police are in possession of. If she can't
get her hands on copies of the audio tapes, Batohi will, at the
very least, try to get copies of authenticated transcripts according
to Press Trust of India.
Batohi is accompanied on her visit to India by police inspector Jeff
Edwards. It is also reported that she might do a bit of investigating
herself. Batohi has expressed an interest to meet the bookmakers who
were supposed to be involved with Cronje.