Actress sighted with Sreesanth courier for bowler, bookies?

Turns out the Marathi actress spotted with nowousted Rajasthan Royals cricketer S Sreesanth at the time of his arrest by Delhi police may have been doing more than adding a touch of razzledazzle to the proceedings According to sources the starlet was acting as a courier mdash collecting money from bookies and delivering it to the medium pacer Under the scanner Both Sreesanth and the Marathi actress mdash who has done several television soaps and also acted in Bollywood films mdash partied at the Original Gourmet OrG pub in Bandra Sources also informed that the actress who was seen at the cricketerrsquos hotel room in the western suburbs a couple of days before the police action would collect money on his behalf during his absence in Mumbai Sources say that she may have gone to Sreesanthrsquos room to tender some of the payout City police officials reportedly recovered Rs 75000 in cash during the raid conducted at Sreesanthrsquos room in Sofitel Hotel on Friday night ldquoThough we donrsquot have substantial evidence against her yet she is indeed under surveillancerdquo added a police source Both Sreesanth and the Marathi actress mdash who has done several television soaps and also acted in Bollywood films mdash partied at the Original Gourmet OrG pub in Bandra after which Sreesanth walked into Royalty the club for some socialising Cops have also established that the cricketer and his friends spent thousands of rupees in that one night before getting arrested Meanwhile in CCTV footage retrieved from Sofitel Hotel in BKC Crime Branch has spotted two other models and a casting director entering the rooms booked by Sreesanth ldquoThe girls entered around 6 am a day before the bowler was arrested and they were seen emerging from the room around 10 pm Based on the videos Crime Branch sleuths traced the casting director who mediated between Sreesanth and the models and he was interrogated ldquoHe the casting director revealed that he had referred the girls to Sreesanth for endorsement campaigns of a tshirt company named S36 Enterprises which is owned by Sreesanth and a Hyderabadbased filmmakerrdquo a Crime Branch official said on the condition of anonymity During Friday nightrsquos raid cops had found Sreesanthrsquos laptop and iPad in his room The laptop had photos of several models According to cops so far they have not come across any concrete leads towards establishing that the casting director was supplying models to Sreesanth During questioning the director in fact told investigators that he had never let the girls interact with Sreesanth directly as this would have impeded his chances of getting a cut from the endorsement deal Meanwhile taking the first step towards ending their lack of coordination lsquoDelhi police vs Mumbai Crime Branch may help fixersrsquo May 20 MiD DAY a team of Delhi policersquos Special Squad on Monday met Mumbairsquos joint commissioner of police Crime Branch Himanshu Roy asking him to share information in the spotfixing case Cops here yesterday produced arrested bookies Ramesh Vyas 52 Pandurang Kadam 41 and Ashok Vyas 41 in a court that remanded them to police custody till May 22 u00a0 u00a0 Cracking the bookie code u00a0Crime Branch is now searching for bookies codenamed P Jaipur Bunty Jaipur Lokesh Delhi Master Jaipur Kothari Bablu Ketan K P Badri Vickey A A u00a0 Shoban Paresh Lotus Rakesh Jaipur Sanjay Jaipur Nokka Jaipur Tinku Delhi Jatin Gujarat Lambu Gujarat Kishore Pune and Shrimurthi u00a0 Rs 75K u00a0The amount reportedly recovered from Sreesanthrsquos hotel room during the raid by Crime Branch