May 16, 2013: Three Rajasthan players — Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila — are arrested on charges of spot-fixing. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) suspended all three with immediate effect. Delhi Police showed the footage from games in which the three bowlers agreed to concede runs for exchange of money in a pre-arranged deal.

May 21: Police arrests small-time Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh for his links with bookies.

May 23: The Mumbai Police summons Gurunath Meiyappan for his links with bookies through Vindoo.

May 24: Meiyappan finally appears before Mumbai Police, followed by his arrest.

June 2: BCCI concludes that Srinivasan should “step aside” until the investigations are completed as the board appoints its own two-member committee of retired judges T. Jayaram Chowta and T. Balasubramainan to look into the allegations.

June 6: Delhi Police says Rajasthan Royals’ co-owner Raj Kundra has confessed to betting. The BCCI suspends Kundra from the IPL pending inquiry.

July 28: BCCI’s two-member committee of retired judges Chowta and Balasubramaniam finds nothing against CSK, RR, Kundra and India Cements. That allowed Srinivasan to return as the BCCI President.

July 30: Cricket Association of Bihar chief Aditya Verma files a PIL against the BCCI in the Bombay High Court. The HC rules the BCCI’s two-member probe panel as unconstitutional according to the BCCI constitution.

August 5: BCCI files a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court’s decision. The grounds of BCCI’s SLP was that they are a private body, which holds HC’s verdict untrue. The same was admitted by the SC two days later.

August 30: Supreme Court sends notices to Rajasthan Royals, India Cements and BCCI based on Verma’s PIL.

September 13: BCCI bans accused RR players. Sreesanth and Chavan were slapped with life bans and Amit Singh banned for five years. Siddhath Trivedi, who was found guilty of not reporting an approach for spot-fixing, was banned for one year. Spinner Harmeet Singh was cleared with no evidence against him.

September 29: Supreme Court permits Srinivasan to contest BCCI elections, but stops him from assuming BCCI office, pending the probe.

October 7: Supreme Court appoints a Justice Mukul Mudgal-led commission to look into the IPL controversy. The commission also included N. Nageshwar Rao, Nilay Dutta besides Mudgal himself.

February 10, 2014: The Mudgal commission submits its report to the Supreme Court. It found Meiyappan involved in betting, but the biggest shock was that it named a few India players involved in the scandal, including one who was part of the 2011 World Cup squad. The names were not disclosed and kept under wraps in a sealed envelope in court’s custody.

March 7: BCCI files an affidavit admitting Meiyappan was part of the CSK franchise as an ‘official’. But the board held firm against the suspension of Chennai franchise on the basis that the franchise agreement talks about the wrongdoings of an ‘owner’ and not an ‘official’. The envelope remained sealed as the SC adjourned the matter until March 25.

March 25: The Supreme Court suggests the BCCI that Srinivasan should step down to allow a fair probe into the IPL scandal. The court gives BCCI two days’ time to decide, but Srinivasan refuses to budge and decides to fight a legal battle.

March 27: The Supreme Court proposed the BCCI that Sunil Gavaskar should be named as the interim chief of the Indian cricket board and Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals suspended from IPL 7.

March 29: SC allows the IPL to go ahead as Gavaskar is appointed interim president of BCCI. Both the teams under scanner are allowed to take part in IPL 7 keeping in mind the cricket fans’ interests.

April 16: SC orders BCCI to conduct their own independent inquiry into the scandal.

April 20: BCCI proposes three-member probe panel before the apex court, comprising of J.N.Patel, former Chief Justice of Kolkata High Court, ex-CBI director R.K. Raghavan and Ravi Shastri, former Indian captain and a member of the IPL governing council.

April 22: SC rejects the three-member panel and asks Justice Mudgal to conduct a full scale probe into the IPL scandal.

— Gulf News Report