Chandigarh, Jan 28 (Inditop.com) Chandigarh police have busted a high-profile racket promising youngsters berths in the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty-20 cricket tournament, officials said here Thursday.
According to police, the racket also involved a city-based cricket club reportedly affiliated to Twenty-20 cricket federation of India.
“We have arrested a man named Sutxien, who was acting as a main link between the gullible youths and the kingpin of the racket. The kingpin is a woman Rajwinder Brar and we are trying to nab her,” Baljit Chadha, deputy superintendent of police (economic offence wing), Chandigarh, told Inditop Thursday.
The accused were promising aspiring cricketers from this region a place in the IPL and in other Twenty-20 cricket tournaments abroad. In lieu of these false promises, they were charging exorbitant amount from them.
The complainant Kunal, a budding cricketer, had paid Rs.700,000 to Brar through Sutxien. Brar had promised Kunal a visa to the US but his application was rejected. Then she said they would send him to Britain, but they again failed to do so.
Brar, 30, a native of Samrala town in Punjab, stayed in Chandigarh’s upscale Sector 2.
“Brar is well connected with many influential people of this region. She has also deceived many youths from Punjab in the name of sending them abroad or giving them a chance in prestigious cricket tournaments,” said a senior official of Chandigarh police, requesting anonymity.
He added: “A police team has been sent to Punjab to arrest Brar. We have got information that many similar cases are already registered against her in different police stations of Punjab.”
Punjab is already notorious for the illegal practice of ‘kabooterbaazi’, under which many people have gone abroad as a part of musical or dance groups.