Match-fixing impacting economy: SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said cricket match fixing has serious financial ramifications on the country’s economy as it offered to go deeper into the 2019 T20 Karnataka Premier League scandal.

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A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh appointed advocate Shivam Singh as amicus curiae to assist it ina plea filed by Karnataka Police against the January 10, 2022 order of the high court.

“We are keen to go deeper into the issue. It has a very serious ramification in the economy. Today, we don’t want to observe anything which would look like we are pre-judging the issue. But this kind of betting has very serious financial ramifications on the economy,” the Bench said.