New Delhi:&nbsp;Indian cricket legend Sunil&nbsp;Gavaskar has hit out at Gurunath Meiyyapan, son-in-law of ICC&nbsp;President N Srinivasan, over his involvement in betting and&nbsp;also questioned the Tamil Nadu strongman's silence in the&nbsp;whole spot-fixing and betting issue.
"The full force of the law must come down on Meiyyapan,"&nbsp;Gavaskar said while speaking to a leading publication in Melbourne.
Gavaskar said Srinivasan needs to explain why he did not&nbsp;act against the player if he knew they were involved in fixing or against the officials who were involved in betting.&nbsp;
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2014/nov/sunil-gavaskar1.jpg" alt="Sunil Gavaskar" /> Sunil Gavaskar
"There are reports which say the Mudgal committee report&nbsp;has found that Srinivasan knew about betting but did not do&nbsp;anything about it. Srinivasan should answer for why he did not&nbsp;act if he knew that a player was guilty," Gavaskar said.
Gavaskar was in Australia at the invitation of Prime&nbsp;Minister Narendra Modi to attend a special reception at the&nbsp;Melbourne Cricket Ground, which was hosted by Australian PM&nbsp;Tony Abbot.
Several Indian and Australian cricketing legends such as&nbsp;Kapil Dev, VVS Laxman, Steve Waugh, Glenn McGrath, Allan&nbsp;Border, Jason Gillespie also attended the reception today.
Gavaskar said that there should be zero tolerance against&nbsp;match-fixing and betting and if any player is found guilty of&nbsp;having participated in wrong acts then he should be jailed and&nbsp;his entire cricketing history deleted from the record books.
Gavaskar said, "New Zealand has come up with a new law on&nbsp;betting which says that guilty players will be jailed. India should have the same law."&nbsp;
The former captain also suggested that the government&nbsp;should think about legalising betting in India.&nbsp;"A lot of betting happens through black money. But if you&nbsp;open official betting shop, Government will be able to&nbsp;increase its revenues. It's like prohibition, if someone wants&nbsp;to bet illegally, they will. Government should think about&nbsp;legalising betting," said Gavaskar.
The cricket legend sought to draw a distinction between&nbsp;team owners who were found guilty of betting and players,&nbsp;saying that players should not be punished till the time it&nbsp;can be established that the owner of the team influenced the&nbsp;player.

Sunil&nbsp;Gavaskar hits out at Gurunath Meiyyapan, Srinivasan's&nbsp;son-in-law, over his involvement in betting and&nbsp;also questioned the Tamil Nadu strongman's silence in the&nbsp;whole spot-fixing and betting issue

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