King Commission prosecutor in India to meet Delhi police

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 is now all set to bring the commission to India.

Press Trust of India (PTI) reports that Shamila Batohi will meet Delhi Police Commissioner Ajay Raj Sharma today in the capital in connection with the matchfixing scandal. The primary objective of her 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 former South African skipper Hansie Cronje allegedly had with bookies. 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, reports PTI.

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.