Team owner’s relative under lens Dara Singh’s Son Vindu Arrested, IPL Fixing Scandal Could Reach The Top Phone Records Link Him With Betting Syndicate S Ahmed Ali TNN Mumbai: Mumbai police have found phone call logs linking Dara Singh’s actor son Vindu—who was arrested here on Tuesday—with a close relative of a powerful IPL franchise owner who wields enormous clout in the world of cricket.     Vindu Dara Singh (49) was picked up after the crime branch established that he had been talking to bookie Ramesh Vyas, who operated his betting syndicate through an illegal telephone exchange in Kalbadevi.     “The team owner’s relative’s mobile number has repeatedly shown up in Vindu’s call records, which we’ve been scanning for the past three days,’’ a top police officer told TOI. He said it was too early to say if the team owner was involved in the betting racket. “We have not yet established whether it was just betting or there was fixing too.’’     Investigations have revealed a series of back-to-back phone conversations: Vindu would call Vyas immediately after talking to the cricket heavyweight’s relative. “It’s not just one conversation; we have enough evidence to establish the relative’s role in the racket,’’ a senior police officer said, adding that the crime branch planned to summon the relative and record his statement before deciding on further action.     Even if the team owner is not linked directly to any betting or fixing, the fallout of his relative’s involvement, should it be established, would be farreaching for cricket and potentially disastrous for IPL.     Vindu, who is reputed to have access to team dressing rooms, is believed to have been a key middlemen in the betting syndicate involving cricketers and bookies across India and Pakistan. He was interrogated for eight hours before being arrested.     His presence at a match at the home ground of the relative last month had raised eyebrows. He was seen chatting with some of the players’ close relatives. “We’ll need to find out if there was anything more to it,’’ a police officer said. The crime branch is also probing the actor’s links with celebrities. It has already questioned two models who were found with cricketer Sreesanth on the night of his arrest. “Some of the Bollywood personalities placed bets through Vindu,’’ an officer said.     Joint CP (crime) Himanshu Roy said, “We will investigate whether Vindu was in touch with the three arrested cricketers.’’ Vindu is alleged to have alerted the bookies and helped many of them flee the city. Police also arrested hawala operators Alpesh Patel (39) and Prem Taneja (39) and recovered Rs 1.28 crore from Patel’s Kalbadevi office. Is Pakistani umpire also part of fixing cartel?     Mumbai police suspect a Pakistani umpire who officiates in IPL matches could be part of the spot-fixing cartel. He was an umpire in one of the controversial matches. Some of the arrested bookies have reportedly told cops about their closeness to him. SC pulls up ‘lackadaisical’ BCCI, seeks report in 2 wks     The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to ban the IPL but criticised BCCI for its “lackadaisical attitude” in dealing with errant players and irregularities. It asked the probe panel to submit its report within 15 days and asked BCCI to act on it promptly.P 16 THE NET WIDENS     Top bookie in Chennai, Prashanth M Paul, arrested. His role with Jiju Janardhan being probed. Two Mumbai hawala operators, Alpesh Patel and Prem Taneja, held; Patel with Rs 1.28 cr     Sreesanth taken to Jaipur by cops and a z-10 Blackberry gifted to girlfriend recovered. He also bought garments worth 1.95 lakh in cash in Mumbai. The expensive purchases being matched with money he allegedly got from bookies     Sreesanth targeted by Dubai betting syndicate after Slapgate incident in 2008 and his isolation from other players     On RR’s complaint, Sec 409 (criminal breach of trust) added to sec 420 (cheating), sec 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC against 3 players who have been remanded for 5 more days in police custody.     On basis of bookies’ disclosure, probe widened to see if now-defuct ICL was first used for spot and match fixing Vindu Singh, allegedly a key middleman between players & bookies, with CSK skipper M S Dhoni’s wife Sakshi at an IPL match in Chennai in April