<p>“We arrested seven men from a plaza in Liberty area in Gulberg today and one of them has been identified as Akram Raza, a former Pakistan player,” a senior police officer at the Gulberg police station said.<br /><br />He said the police got a tip off that a gang of known bookmakers was taking bets on the IPL in the liberty area and conducted the raid.<br /><br />“We recovered cash, mobile phones and many telephone numbers in India,” he said.<br />He said the arrested persons, including Raza, have been lodged at the Gulberg station but not charged as yet.<br /><br />“We are investigating to find out their modus operandi and connections,” he said. The 46-year-old, who played nine Tests and 49 one-day internationals for Pakistan, is presently on the Pakistan Cricket Board first class umpires panel and has supervised top matches.<br />He was also named in the match-fixing scandal that first broke out in Pakistan cricket 16 years back and was later fined by the Justice Malik Qayyum inquiry commission into match-fixing in 2000.<br /><br />Raza is a close friend of former Pakistan captain Salim Malik who was banned for life by the same commission for match-fixing.</p>
<p>“We arrested seven men from a plaza in Liberty area in Gulberg today and one of them has been identified as Akram Raza, a former Pakistan player,” a senior police officer at the Gulberg police station said.<br /><br />He said the police got a tip off that a gang of known bookmakers was taking bets on the IPL in the liberty area and conducted the raid.<br /><br />“We recovered cash, mobile phones and many telephone numbers in India,” he said.<br />He said the arrested persons, including Raza, have been lodged at the Gulberg station but not charged as yet.<br /><br />“We are investigating to find out their modus operandi and connections,” he said. The 46-year-old, who played nine Tests and 49 one-day internationals for Pakistan, is presently on the Pakistan Cricket Board first class umpires panel and has supervised top matches.<br />He was also named in the match-fixing scandal that first broke out in Pakistan cricket 16 years back and was later fined by the Justice Malik Qayyum inquiry commission into match-fixing in 2000.<br /><br />Raza is a close friend of former Pakistan captain Salim Malik who was banned for life by the same commission for match-fixing.</p>
