New Delhi: Match-fixing has all the elements of cheating as players indulging in it have the dishonest intention to deceive viewers and sponsors into believing that a fair game would be played. With this argument, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) wants the Supreme Court to hold that match-fixing is a crime, can be probed under penal law and the accused charged with the offence of cheating.

Last week, the board, seeking the Supreme Court’s intervention in a pending criminal appeal, filed an application before it acknowledging the prevalence of corrupt practices in cricket.

It categorically stated in its plea that match-fixing amounts to the criminal offence of cheating as defined under Section 318 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Section 420 of the erstwhile India

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