Both Sharjeel, PCB record appeals opposite verdict
NOT SATISFIED: PCB believes a anathema imposed on Sharjeel Khan by a ACT should have been sterner in sequence to make an instance out of him for other players. PHOTO: AFP
KARACHI: Left-handed opener Sharjeel Khan, criminialized by a Anti-Corruption Tribunal (ACT) for his purpose in a Pakistan Super League (PSL) spot-fixing case, has filed an interest for a decrease of a five-year anathema placed on him, while a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has demanded a sterner punishment.
Sharjeel, found guilty on all 5 depends brought opposite him by a PCB, believes a house doesn’t have adequate explanation opposite him and he should usually be punished for not stating a proceed done by a bookies.
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Both parties will now benefaction their cases in front of an eccentric adjudicator, that will be allocated by a PCB and will be a former decider of a Supreme Court.
The ACT, presided over by a former Lahore High Court judge, didn’t excellent Sharjeel and also dangling a five-year judgment from a due 10-year ban, that will be counted from Feb 1, 2017.
“We are not confident with a anathema imposed on Sharjeel. Since a judiciary has found him guilty of all 5 beaches of a anti-corruption formula that we charged him with, we wish a longer anathema and complicated excellent imposed on him,” pronounced Tafazzul Rizvi, a authorised confidant of a PCB.
On a other hand, Sharjeel’s counsel Shaighan Ejaz believes their interest is formed on a fact that a PCB did not yield any justification to a ACT underneath that his customer could be punished for usurpation a offer of a bookies and doing a act.
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“My customer does not accept a 5 charges. He usually accepts a assign of not stating an offer on time to a PCB,” pronounced Ejaz.
Shaighan combined that a cessation of 5 years from a due 10-year anathema means a ACT was not assured by a box presented by a PCB opposite Sharjeel.
“We motionless to go to a eccentric decider since even if a interest is discharged we have a choice of going to a high probity or autarchic courts,” he explained. “If we had left to a general Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in Geneva, their outcome would have been final with no entrance to interest serve in a aloft courts.”
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Khalid Latif, another Islamabad United opener sent behind from a PSL2 for purported impasse in spot-fixing, was also criminialized by a ACT for 5 years with a excellent of Rs1 million also imposed on him.
Latif’s counsel Badr Alam, however, believes a PCB victimised both players for different reasons.
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“The due march of law and a mandate were not followed during all in a case,” pronounced Alam. “In fact, we were not even authorised to cranky inspect a 5 witnesses constructed by a PCB in a deficiency before a tribunal.”
Alam combined that they have filed a petition in a Supreme Court opposite a five-year anathema and a fine.
“We don’t accept a management of this judiciary that didn’t yield probity to us and we have already filed a petition in a Supreme Court seeking justice,” he said.
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