Rashid Latif records statement in camera (18 October 1998)

18 October 1998

Rashid Latif records statement in camera

By Our Reporter

LAHORE, Oct 17: Pakistan wicket keeper Rashid Latif on Saturday recorded his statement in-camera before the Inquiry Commission probing the charges of match-fixing against certain players.

Justice Malik Muhammad Qayyum also recorded the statements of an alleged bookie Chaudhry Khalid and owner of Carry Home restaurant, Ziaul Haq where a witness on the previous date of hearing said that bets were made.

Chaudhry Khalid said that he did not know any cricket team member and that he had never indulged in betting. He is a cloth merchant and lives in Model Town. Former fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz in his statement had namedhim and some others as persons through whom batsman Saleem Malik indulged in match-fixing.

He said that he knew Manzoor Churra who was also named by the fast bowler. He said that Manzoor was his father-in-law's friend and that he sometimes lent him money. He said that he had been abroad only twice, once in 1987 and then in August, 1998.

He said that he did not take any interest in cricket. He did not know Sarfraz Nawaz personally and that he wrongly involved him in the case. Mr Ziaul Haq said that he took possession of his restaurant from the previous tenant in August, 1994.

He said that no betting was done in the restaurant. He said that he did not know if the tenant, Abdul Ghafoor, indulged in such activities. The tenantnow runs his own restaurant. He said that the witness who accused him was lying.

Pakistan Cricket Board legal adviser Ali Sabtain Fazli said that the tenant should be summoned on the next date of hearing. The court adjourned the proceedings till Wednesday when PCB chairman Khalid Mahmood would also record his statement.

Source :: Dawn (https://dawn.com/)