Cellphone numbers of ex-cricketer identified

The name of the former Indian team member had figured during the examination of bookies in Mumbai and here, they said, adding that the agency would examine him once he returns from abroad a few months later.

Meanwhile, IT sources said they were planning to prepare details of return of cricketers and Board officials whose names have surfaced repeatedly during the investigations of the match-fixing.

The sources said, however, the department was only collecting information and was not planning to rush into investigation.

The sources confirmed that they had been "sounded" by the CBI orally on these issues but said any such action as search and raids can be taken only after the investigating agency approached them with a formal request.

Income Tax departments in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Hyderabad were assessing the incomes of prominent cricketers and Board officials, IT sources said.

INDORE: Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Police, probing the alleged bunglings by a group of non-banking finance companies of which former Test cricketer Manoj Prabhakar is alleged to be one of the directors, will soon be sending a team to question him and other two persons named in the first information report filed here, police sources said.

Highly-placed sources in Indore Police said a police team was likely to be sent to Delhi soon to question Prabhakar and other directors allegedly involved in cheating people.

Police here raided the office of the group of the companies after registering several cases in this regard.

However, Prabhakar has denied any involvement in the group of companies beyond playing for them as a cricketer.

But, police officials here claim that the seized counterfoils of the fixed deposit made by people bear the name of Prabhakar though it was yet to be authenticated whether he signed them.

The sources said if necessary the police team, which will be headed by a Deputy superintendent of police, might even seek a production warrant from a Delhi court and bring Prabhakar and other directors here.