Police in New Delhi investigating a spot-fixing cricket scandal on Thursday ordered the owner of an Indian Premier League (IPL) team not to leave India, an officer said.
Raj Kundra, husband of actress Shilpa Shetty and one of the owners of Rajasthan Royals, was ordered to hand over his passport to a police team trying to establish a link between corrupt players and organised crime syndicates.
“As Kundra is part of our investigations, he has been told not to leave the country and hand over his passport,” the senior officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Kundra was questioned by police for 10 hours on Wednesday.
So far, three players from his Rajasthan Royals team have been arrested over allegations of spot-fixing during the sixth edition of the cash-rich Twenty20 IPL tournament.
“He is basically found involved in betting and we have not yet been able to connect him to (spot) fixing,” the investigator said as police quizzed Kundra in New Delhi.
Police are unlikely to book Kundra under India’s anti-gambling law which is a bailable offence.