<p>The Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee today gave a clean chit to former IPL COO Sundar Raman in connection with the 2013 spot-fixing and betting scandal, citing lack of evidence against him.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"There was not enough evidence against Sundar Raman and no knowledge of him knowing Vindoo (Dara Singh)," said Justice R M Lodha while reading out parts of the report he submitted to the Supreme Court today.<br /><br />When contacted, Raman chose not to comment on Lodha panel's recommendations.<br />"I have not yet the read report so I would not want to comment on it. I have heard that I have been given a clean chit and I appreciate it but there is nothing more I want to add," Raman, who resigned from his post in November, told PTI.<br /><br />Earlier, the Justice Mukul Mudgal-led panel, which was formed to investigate the IPL spot-fixing scandal, had named Raman as Individual 12 in its report, which said he "knew a contact of a bookie and had contacted him eight times in one season".<br /><br />His alleged involvement in the spot-fixing scandal had BCCI president Shashank Manohar saying that "Raman should have gone immediately after the Mudgal Committee report found him prima facie guilty of wrongdoings".<br /><br />"He ought to have stepped down immediately at that time. Now, to restore the faith of people in IPL and the game, Raman needs to go," Manohar had said in July.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court-appointed Lodha Committee today gave a clean chit to former IPL COO Sundar Raman in connection with the 2013 spot-fixing and betting scandal, citing lack of evidence against him.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"There was not enough evidence against Sundar Raman and no knowledge of him knowing Vindoo (Dara Singh)," said Justice R M Lodha while reading out parts of the report he submitted to the Supreme Court today.<br /><br />When contacted, Raman chose not to comment on Lodha panel's recommendations.<br />"I have not yet the read report so I would not want to comment on it. I have heard that I have been given a clean chit and I appreciate it but there is nothing more I want to add," Raman, who resigned from his post in November, told PTI.<br /><br />Earlier, the Justice Mukul Mudgal-led panel, which was formed to investigate the IPL spot-fixing scandal, had named Raman as Individual 12 in its report, which said he "knew a contact of a bookie and had contacted him eight times in one season".<br /><br />His alleged involvement in the spot-fixing scandal had BCCI president Shashank Manohar saying that "Raman should have gone immediately after the Mudgal Committee report found him prima facie guilty of wrongdoings".<br /><br />"He ought to have stepped down immediately at that time. Now, to restore the faith of people in IPL and the game, Raman needs to go," Manohar had said in July.</p>