Timeline: IPL spot-fixing controversy

Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals could be banned from the IPL when a Supreme Court-appointed panel hands down its sentence on Tuesday in corruption scandal.
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May 16, 2013: Delhi Police arrests Sreesanth, Ankit Chauhan, Ajit Chandila, Sreesanth's friend and alleged bookie Jiju Janardhan and 10 other bookies.
May 17, 2013: The BCCI suspends former Rajasthan Royals player Amit Singh.
May 21, 2013: Mumbai Police arrest Vindoo Dara Singh for his alleged links with bookies.
May 22, 2013: Mumbai Police reveals that Vinoo Dara Singh was in touch with CSK team principal Gurunath Meiyappan, son in law of BCCI president N Srinivasan.
May 23, 2013: Mumbai Police team raids Meiyappan's residence in Chennai.
May 24, 2013: Mumbai Police arrests Meiyappan on charges of betting, cheating and conspiracy. India Cements Executive President TS Raghupathy issues a Press Release stating that Meiyappan was neither the Owner, nor CEO/Team Principal of Chennai Super Kings. "Mr. Gurunath is only one of the Members (Honorary) of the Management Team of Chennai Super Kings," he says.
May 26, 2013: The BCCI appoints a three-man commission consisting of Justice T Jayaram Chouta, Justice R Balasubramanian and BCCI Secretary Sanjay Jagdale to look into the charges of betting against Meiyappan.
May 27, 2013: Srinivasan insists at a media briefing "He [Gurunath] did not have any role. He never visited the CSK office. But he would go [to the matches]. He is very enthusiastic. Let the commission find out."
May 31, 2013: Jagdale resigns, saying he is deeply hurt by recent developments. BCCI Treasurer Ajay Shirke also quits.
July 28, 2013: Two-member probe panel rules that there is no evidence of any wrongdoing against Raj Kundra, India Cements and Rajasthan Royals.
July 30, 2013: The Bombay High Court bench comprising justices SJ Vazifdar and MS Sonak inds the BCCI's two-man probe panel illegal and questioned the logic of the report finding everyone innocent despite not even speaking to the police.
Aug 5, 2013: The BCCI files a Special Leave Petition before the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court decision.
September 7, 2013: Mumbai Police names Meiyappan in its chargesheet filed before a Mumbai Court.
Oct 1, 2013: Mike Hussey writes in his book Underneath the Southern Cross that Meiyappan and Kepler Wessels run CSK. "Our owner was Indian Cements, headed by Mr Srinivasan," Hussey wrote in his autobiography. "As he was also on the board of the BCCI, he gave control of the team to his son-in-law Mr Gurunath. He ran the team along with Kepler Wessels, who was coach."
October 7, 2013: The Supreme Court appoints a three-member committee headed by former High Court judge Mukul Mudgal, additional solicitor general N Nageshwar Rao and Assam Cricket Association member Nilay Dutta.
Oct 14, 2013: Hussey does a U-turn. "Certainly Guru was around the team a lot. I knew he was talking to Kepler (Wessels, Super Kings' coach in IPL 2008) and the players, and we saw him at training and at the hotel. I didn't know what his official title was but he was around the team quite often. I probably may have written the wrong thing," he was quoted as saying.
Nov 6, 2013: The Mudgal Panel meets BCCI Anti-Corruption and Security chief Ravi Sawani and Mumbai Joint Commissioner of Police Himanshu Roy
Nov 15-17, 2013: The Mudgal Panel meets IPL COO Sundar Raman, former BCCI Vice-president Chirayu Amin, Chavan, Sreesanth, Harmeet Singh, Kundra and Vindoo.
Dec 5, 2013: The Mudgal Panel meets Chandila and Siddharth Trivedi.
Dec 19, 2013: Srinivasan meets the Mudgal Panel but Meiyappan gives it a letter exercising his right to remain silent and "not affect his right to defend himself in the criminal case".
Jan 4, 2014: The Mudgal Panel meets former BCCI President IS Bindra, lawyer Rahul Mehra, former IPL Governing Council Chairman Rajeev Shukla, BCCI Vice-President Arun Jaitley and others.
Jan 19-20, 2014: The Mudgal Panel meets former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya and former India captain Sourav Ganguly and meets 'stakeholders' in Bangalore.
Feb 10, 2014: After meeting 100 people and more in nearly four months, the Mudgal Panel presents report to the Supreme Court. The judges have been given a single copy of a sealed envelope whose contents are available only for the Court. The envelope will only be opened and its contents read by the judges.
# Justice Mudgal tells the media that Meiyappan was the face of Chennai Super Kings and the team official of CSK.
# Meiyappan was found guilty of betting and passing on information in IPL 2013
# Kundra, the Rajasthan Royals team owner, had resorted to betting in the IPL through Umesh Goenka as is "evident" from Goenka's statements recorded by a Delhi court.
# Further and serious investigations on the basis of the Goenka statements were required.
# The question of whether Meiyappan was involved in match-fixing and spot fixing had not been investigated thoroughly by the anti-corruption units of the ICC and the BCCI or the Crime Branch Criminal Investigation Department of the Chennai police, even though some information was available for such an investigation to be conducted.
# Meiyappan had been in violations of several sections of the IPL Operational Rules, the IPL Anti-Corruption Code and Articles of the Code of Conduct for Players and team officials.
# It can only report a violation of the rules to the Court as it does not have a mandate to impose any punishment.
# It is for the Hon'ble Supreme Court to decide what action if any, is to be taken pursuant of the report of the Committee.
March 7 2014: The Supreme Court adjourns taking up arguments until March 25 since it had not read the Justice Mudgal Committee's reports yet.
March 25, 2014: The Supreme Court suggests that Srinivasan steps down to enable fair investigation into the allegations of betting. "It's nauseating that N Srinivasan continues as BCCI chief, he should go if cricket has to be cleaned."??Srinivasan refused to comment, saying he would study the Court observations.
March 27, 2014: The BCCI proposes that its secretary Sanjay Patel runs the board in Srinivasan's absence when he steps aside while the Chennai Police conducts a time-bound investigation. The BCCI also requests the SC not to curtail Srinivasan's 'hefty role' in international cricket.
# The SC suggests that: The BCCI suspend Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings from IPL.
# Sunil Gavaskar be named interim president of the BCCI until it gives a verdict in the case
# No person associated with India Cements should be involved with the BCCI.
April 20, 2014: The BCCI suggests a three-man committee to SC to probe IPL scandal. The BCCI decided to suggest names of former India allrounder Ravi Shastri, former Calcutta High Court Chief Justice JN Patel and ex-CBI director RK Raghavan as members of the probe committee.
April 22, 2014: The SC asks the Justice Mudgal committee to investigate the IPL corruption issue, and in particular the 13 names mentioned in the sealed envelope, with the assistance of other investigators. Mudgal has communicated to the court his willingness to take up the investigation and has been asked to specify the terms and modalities on April 29, the next date of hearing.
April 29, 2014: The BCCI says it wants the SC to form a new panel as it had found the Mudgal committee's report "erroneous". At the hearing, the BCCI counsel also asked the court to reinstate Srinivasan to his office as BCCI president while the probe was being conducted.
May 16, 2014: The SC empowers Justice Mudgal to head the investigation into the IPL and asks him to look into the 'sealed envelope'. Apart from Mudgal, L Nageswara Rao, Nilay Dutta, and former IPS officer BB Mishra are also in the probe panel.
May 22, 2014: The Supreme Court declines Srinivasan's plea to be reinstated as the BCCI president for non-IPL affairs. The court rules that it will not interfere with an earlier order that had asked Srinivasan to stand aside as board chief for the duration of the investigation into alleged corruption in the IPL.
June 8, 2014: It is announced that Sourav Ganguly will join the Mudgal-led committee that is probing allegations of corruption in the IPL on justice Mudgal's request, including the investigation of 13 individuals listed in a sealed envelope that was given to the SC after a preliminary inquiry.
June 12, 2014: The SC allows Srinivasan to contest for the top ICC post by declining an injunction petition from the Cricket Association of Bihar.
August 29, 2014: The Mudgal Committee submits an interim report to the Supreme Court.
September 1, 2014: The Mudgal Committee gets a two-month extension for its final report. The SC also refuses to reinstate Srinivasan pending an enquiry.
November 3, 2014: The Mudgal Committee submits its final report in the IPL corruption case to the Supreme Court, which will take it up on November 10. The report could determine, among other things, whether ICC chairman Srinivasan can seek re-election as president of the BCCI.
November 10, 2014: The SC takes up the multiple reports submitted by the Mudgal Committee and postpones the hearing until November 14. The apex court asks the BCCI why the report cannot be made public.
November 11, 2014: The Bombay High Court squashes the conflict of interest PIL against Srinivasan, filed by the Cricket Association of Bihar chief challenging two amendments brought out by the BCCI in its rules allegedly to favour Srinivasan.
November 21, 2014: Srinivasan seeks reinstatement as BCCI chief.
November 24, 2014: Conflict of interest returns to haunt Srinivasan in the Supreme Court.
November 25, 2014: The SC says Meiyappan's role in IPL scam is like insider trading.
November 27, 2014: The SC throws suggestions whether those named in the Mudgal Committee could keep out of BCCI elections and the CSK franchise could be scrapped.
December 1, 2014: The SC says the onus is on disproving conflict of interest on Srinivasan.
December 9, 2014: The SC proposes a high-powered committee to cleanse cricket.
December 10, 2014: Srinivasan agrees to keep away from the IPL, seeks an SC nod for reinstatement as BCCI president.
December 15, 2014: The SC decides to examine a controversial amendment in the BCCI rules which enables office bearers to own teams in the IPL and Champions League T20 amidst a raging debate over the conflict of interest issue.
December 17, 2014: The SC asks players and administrators with interests not to run the game and reserves order in the alleged betting and spot-fixing scam case.
January 22, 2015: The SC bars Srinivasan from standing for any post in the BCCI.
January 22, 2015: The SC sets up the committee comprising former Chief Justice of India RM Lodha, former Justice Ashok Bhan and former Justice R Raveendran to determine appropriate punishments for Meiyappan, Kundra and their respective franchises.
July 11, 2015: The three-member panel says it will announce the quantum of punishment on July 14 for Meiyappan, Kundra and the teams they were part of - CSK and Rajasthan Royals respectively - for their alleged involvement in the IPL 2013 corruption scandal.