Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma denied bail to the cricketer after Delhi Police said it had also invoked the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against Sreesanth and 25 others. Sreesanth and 16 accused have filed bail pleas. The court was told that MCOCA has been invoked against the accused as they were allegedly facilitating the illegal acts of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Chhota Shakeel.

Rajasthan Royals players Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan and 22 others were arrested after Delhi Police intercepted telephone calls of those linked to the Mumbai underworld. Of the 26 accused, Chavan and Sreesanth's friend Abhishek Shukla have been given bail. Co-accused Ashwani Aggarwal was sent to Mumbai on a production warrant issued by a court there.