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. 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.