Kumar is the officer who claimed MS Dhoni was named by bookie Utham Jain aka Kitty, along with Gurunath Meiyappan, as part of a deal that involved fixing in the IPL.

Suspended IPS officer G Sampath Kumar, who had alleged there was a cover-up in the IPL betting and spot-fixing investigation, has moved the Supreme Court to appoint a Special Investigation Team to probe the T20 league.

Kumar is the officer who claimed India captain MS Dhoni was named by bookie Utham Jain aka Kitty, along with Gurunath Meiyappan, as part of a deal that involved fixing in the IPL. According to Sampath, he stumbled across Kitty while investigating a fake passport case.

Kumar had deposed before the Justice Mudgal Committee, where he said he had been shifted off the investigation to prevent him from investigating further. He was suspended after making public statements to a news channel naming Dhoni and was subsequently named as one of the respondents in a Rs 100 crore defamation suit filed by the Indian cricket captain.

According to the Economic Times, Kumar said in his petition "... the fact that the applicant had deposed before the probe committee appointed by this court did not find favour with certain influential sections of people who are in management of IPL and also certain officials trying their best to de-rail the investigating process and sabotage the entire probe.

"This lobby worked hard with the powers that be and the applicant was suspended without assigning any reason and the entire investigating team was transferred."

A report on NDTV said Kumar quoted from Nilay Dutta's report in his petition. Dutta was one of the three members of the Mudgal Committee appointed by the Supreme Court to investigate the IPL. In his report, he slammed the Chennai police for its role in investigating the IPL betting and fixing scandal, going so far as to say “there seems to be a deliberate intention to cover up the match fixing deal allegedly arrived at on 27.04.2013.”

According to Dutta's report, the Superintendent of the Q Branch had stated that there was allegations of a match fixing deal concluded on the 27 April 2013 that implicated Gurunath Meiyappan, hotelier Vikram Agarwal and an “important Indian player.”

However, the police refused to hand over its interrogation report of Utham Jain aka Kitty..

The court is expected to hear Kumar's please on 16 April, which is when the IPL case next comes up for hearing.

The Mudgal Committee was headed by former judge Justice Mukul Mudgal and included Additional Solicitor General L. Nageswara Rao and senior advocate Nilay Dutta. The committee submitted its report to the Supreme Court on 10 February along with a sealed envelope allegding claiming names of up to 13 players and other officials and owners in the IPL.

In an interim order earlier this month, the Supreme Court suspended BCCI president N. Srinivasan and appointed Sunil Gavaskar to run the IPL and Shivlal Yadav to handle all other matters pertaining to the BCCI.