Leaving the calling card in India’s shadowy world of cricket fixing

Name and notoriety go hand-in-hand in Indian cricket’s dark underbelly, the organised world of illegal betting. For alleged cricket bookies like Tinku Mandi, Jupiter, Jeetu Tharad, Chotu Jalandhar and Chota Nagpur, their ‘operating name’ is virtually their address. Sample these names: For alleged cricket bookies like Tinku Mandi, Jupiter, Jeetu Tharad, Chotu Jalandhar and Chota Nagpur, their ‘operating name’ is virtually their address. MANDI, LOVE Following his arrest in the wake of the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal, a Delhi Police special branch officer asked top bookie, Ashwani Aggarwal, about his surname, Tinku Mandi. In the police and ED records, Jupiter is an alleged ‘master bookie’ and key ally of Tinku Mandi, who was arrested by the Delhi Police special branch with 29 others, including Rajasthan Royals players S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan in 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal.