da bwin： Mumbai-based international umpire BC Jamula has been elected as thepresident of The Association of Cricket Umpires in India
Staff and Agencies19-Aug-2001* Jamula elected umpires’ association presidentMumbai-based international umpire BC Jamula has been elected as thepresident of The Association of Cricket Umpires in India. KParthasarathy of Andhra Pradesh and SK Sharma of Mumbai will be thevice-presidents while MR Singh, also of Mumbai, has been elected asthe secretary, an association release said in Mumbai on Sunday.While SC Gupta of Uttar Pradesh will be the joint secretary, SK Bansalof Delhi has been elected as the treasurer, it added.The managing committee members are: Suresh Deo (Maharashtra), AmishSahiba (Gujarat), LP Verma (Bihar), S Banerjee (Bengal), AV Jayprakash(Karnataka), KG Laxminarayanan (Tamil Nadu), Sudhir Asnani (MadhyaPradesh), Balwant Sharma (Rajasthan), Devinder Sharma (Delhi) and HSSekhon (Punjab).* Prabhakar gets interim bailFormer Test cricketer Manoj Prabhakar was on Friday given an interimthree-month bail by the Uttaranchal High Court in the chit fund case.Justice PC Verma gave the orders on a petition filed by Prabhakar,police said. The cricketer was arrested on July 2 from his south Delhioffice by Uttaranchal police following non-bailable warrants issued bya Haldwani court against him in the chit fund case involving ApaceIndia Limited.Uttaranchal police had filed a charge sheet in a Nainital districtcourt last month alleging that Prabhakar was director of Apaceinvestment, a chit fund company, which is alleged to have defraudedand cheated people while accepting deposits from them.Meanwhile, the condition of Prabhakar, who was admitted to a privatenursing home on July 3 in Haldwani following a suspected brain stroke,continued to be stable, doctors attending on him said.* Eight arrested for betting on Ashes Test released on bailAll the eight persons arrested on Friday on the charge of involvementin betting on the fourth Ashes Test between England And Australia,were on Saturday released on bail, police said.The accused, all hailing from Kolhapur in Maharashtra, were arrestedfrom a local hotel under sections three and four of the Goa GamblingAct, police said, adding as the offence was bailable they werereleased by Judicial Magistrate First Class, Panaji.Cash worth Rs 50,000 and 19 mobile phones were also recovered from theaccused, police said. Entries in documents seized from the accusedrevealed that they had received bets amounting to over Rs 25 lakhs.Police are also probing their links with Mumbai bookies.