MUMBAI: A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the supreme court. It wants a special investigation team (SIT) to look into the ongoing spot-fixing scandal.

The petitioner has asked for a stay on the tournament until the probe is complete.

The sixth edition of the IPL concludes on Sunday 26 May. Three players from the Rajasthan Royals franchise S Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila were arrested on charges of spot fixing and are being questioned by the police.

The franchise will file an FIR against the three players. They were advised to do so by the BCCI which convened an emergency meeting. In a statement the franchise said, "We, along with the BCCI and other IPL franchises, take a zero tolerance approach to spot or game fixing. The impact on the game, our team, and our franchise has been devastating. It is critical that this evil is rooted out of the game, and as such we will be filing FIR?s with the Delhi police, based on the information provided. This will ensure that justice is pursued to its most complete end, and that the police are able to appropriately conduct their investigation. The reputational impact on the franchise, our players, our stakeholders, and the game has been immense. The actions must be punished."

The franchise also requested the media to show due restraint in the reporting of the events as it relates to its other players. The enforcement directorate (ED) reports indicate will also probe the spot-fixing case to find out if there was any money laundering involved.

Meanwhile the BCCI in damage control mode has decided that all cricketers? agents will now need to be accredited to the BCCI while an anti-corruption official of the board will be assigned to each IPL team.

In addition an anti-graft official will accompany the Indian cricket team to England for the Champions Trophy which kicks off on 6 June 2013.

NEW DELHI: Steel magnate and Member of Parliament Naveen Jindal has filed a second first information report against Zee News Ltd.

According to Zee News, this FIR is a repeat performance of an earlier FIR by Jindal "in as much as it is full of similar falsities and over reach of extant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and taken on board in toto by Delhi Police without any effort to ascertain preliminary facts".

The second FIR, like the FIR on 2 October 2012 which was accepted by Delhi Police around midnight of a national holiday, was accepted late at night at 21:30 hrs.

Zee News Counsel Vijay Aggarwal said: ?This FIR is a counter offensive to investigation ordered by the court to be conducted by SHO Tughlak road. The contents of FIR are a figment of imagination, malafide and oppressive. Common citizen are not able to get FIR registered for their genuine grievances but this series of FIR on flimsy grounds show how Delhi Police is trying to please politicians?.

Zee News has now vowed to pursue every single legal and journalistic remedy to expose what it calls the "collusion between Naveen Jindal, MP, and Police / State Authorities". ZNL appeals to all opinion leaders to "intercede as they deem fit".

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has filed a first information report (FIR) against Zee News for telecasting an interview of the male friend of the 23-year old Delhi gang-rape victim.

The police has filed the FIR saying Zee News revealed the identity of the rape victim by carrying the interview of her male friend, who has been identified as Avaindra Pratap Pandey by the news channel.

The male friend was also brutalised along with the deceased victim on 16 December by six in a bus and is the only witness in the case.

The FIR has been filed under 228(A) of the Indian Penal Code which pertains to the disclosure of the identity of the victim of certain offences including rape.