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May 20, 2000
Sources close to the investigators indicated that the CBI wanted Bindra to clarify certain points relating to the data annexed with the report and sought the clarifications in a questionnaire sent to the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) chief earlier this week. The questionnaire also posed certain other queries, but the sources refused to divulge them. Bindra, when contacted, did not give details about the content of the questionnaire. Bindra had on May 15 appeared before the CBI on his own and submitted the 360-page document after a 70-minute meeting with the investigators, headed by Joint Director RN Sawani. In his report, he has understood to have raised issues of TV rights of cricket matches since 1996 and about the alleged illegalities in matches played in Sharjah, Singapore and Toronto. CBI sources said today that Bindra had another meeting with the investigating team on May 16. But what transpired at the meeting was not known. The sources said the investigating team was still scrutinising the papers provided by Bindra. Once that was complete, it would examine him about its queries on various issues raised by the ex-BCCI functionary. Sources indicated that the process of scrutinising the documents was likely to be completed in a couple of days and his examination could be done later this week or early next week. According to Bindra, he has received the questionnaire based on his report and was preparing a written reply for it. The CBI has so far questioned four people, including former India manager Sunil Dev. Also on cards is the questionining of former India all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar who set the ball rolling with his sensational allegation about three years ago that one of his senior colleagues had offered him money to play below potential in a Singer Cup match in Sri Lanka in 1994. Though the questoning of Prabhakar was a certainty, the date of his deposition before the country's premier investigating agency was yet to be decided. Bindra had recently on a CNN programme created a furore by naming Kapil Dev as the senior player who had offered money to Manoj Prabhakhar to perform below par.
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