Sanjeev Chawla, caught & bowled by India
Prasun Sonwalkar Filed on May 8, 2021
Like other cases, Chawla’s also went through several twists and turns in the judicial process, but reached a dead-end when the European Court of Human Rights the last recourse also refused to intervene in his extradition.
In cricketing terms, the scoreboard may well read: Sanjeev Chawla, caught and bowled India 0. Exactly 20 years after allegedly being a conduit between bookmakers who wanted to fix the outcome of cricket matches during South Africa’s tour of India in 2000, Chawla was on a flight to New Delhi, escorted by a team of the Delhi police, making him the first person since the 1992 UK-India treaty to be successfully extradited to India following a prolonged judicial process in the UK.