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Indian Police is all geared up to file charges against bookies, 13 years after the match-fixing scandal surfaced in 2000.

Police have already prepped up an extensive list of charges against those booked. It will hand over the charge sheet against five bookies including former South African skipper Hansie Cronje, before chief metropolitan magistrate.

The news comes soon after Delhi Police head Neeraj Kumar professed to file charges against 2000 match-fixing and IPL 2013 spot-fixing by end of this month.

Neeraj Kumar, who retires this month, has left no stone unturned to make his case watertight.

Hansie Cronje was given a lifetime suspension from cricket in October 2000, six months after he was booked by Delhi cops on match-fixing charges.

Police accused Cronje of taking money from bookie Sanjeev Chawla for “underperforming” during the India IDI series and had also coaxed playmates Herschelle Gibbs, Nicky Boje and Pieter Strydom to join him.

Following the charges, Cronje was ousted from the South African team and an inquiry was set up to investigate the bribery scandal. Cronje, later confessed taking $10,000 to $15,000 bribe from Chawla.

Police is likely to produce "hundreds of pages" of telephone call records between Cronje and Chawla, as its key evidence.

Chawla, who is in the UK now, might be extradited to India once the charge sheet is placed in the court.  

Hansie Cronje  was killed in June 2002 in a light plane crash.

AW: Suchorita Dutta