The Supreme Court on 17th April2015 appointed CBI sleuth Vivek Priyadarshi to head a new investigating team to further investigate the IPL-6 spot-fixing and betting scandal.

Three-member committee of retired judges lead by former Chief Justice of India R M Lodh made a choice to appoint Vivek Priyadarshi,.

The SC had asked the three-member committee to determine the quantum of punishment for CSK and its official Gurunath Meiyappan and Rajasthan Royals and Raj Kundra for betting in IPL 2013.

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• About Vivek Priyadarshi
  • Priyadarshi is a superintendent of police in the anti-corruption cell of the agency.
  • He will replace 1983-batch Assam-Meghalaya  IPS officer B B Mishra as the head of the probe team following his retirement.
  • Priyadarshi have handled the most high- profile cases including 2G spectrum allocation scam.