Mumbai: The Mumbai Police plan to question Chennai Super Kings principal Gurunath Meiyappan, the son-in-law of team owner and Indian cricket board chief N Srinivasan, in the spot-fixing scandal. With his name figuring prominently in the interrogation of arrested Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara. 

“Meiyappans family is into film production, and Vindoo says he met him five-six years ago at a party and they hit off. But then, Vindoo says Meriyappan does not have much knowledge of cricket. Of course this has to be verified,” said Mumbai Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy.

In Delhi, investigators added two more matches to the three under the scanner. Special cell officials claimed arrested cricketer Ajit Chandila was paid at least Rs. 49 lakh and had accepted money to bowl a manipulated over in a May 17 match, but was arrested a day before it was played.

Gurunaths questioning would revolve around his links with Vindoo and if he was involved in betting or was passing inside information about matches. 

Vindoo, allegedly linked to several bookies and cricketers, told the police he was introduced to Gurunath four-five years ago in Chennai by Anand Saxena, a Delhi-based bookmaker, and became friends with him. He claimed he went to Chennai to watch a match where he was photographed with CSK captain MS Dhonis wife Sakshi on Gurunaths invitation.

The small-time actor has revealed that he made crores from betting on T20 matches, and his take-home from this season was Rs. 17 lakh.