'Govt. for changes in law to incorporate match-fixing'

NEW DELHI, DEC.13. The Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Ms. Uma Bharti, today said the Government proposed some changes in the provisions of law to incorporate issues such as match-fixing which took the Indian cricket by storm in the past few months. ``Changes in law will have to be made definitely. Some suggestions have been made to the Law Ministry,'' she told presspersons after a meeting with members of the ICC team which is here in connection with the investigation into match-fixing.

``There is no clarity in law on such an issue (match- fixing) as nobody visualised that such a thing could ever happen ... It is like the Law is silent on a foreigner becoming the Prime Minister of the country,'' she said.

Ms. Bharti said next Monday she would have a meeting with officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India which would be followed by meetings with officials of other sports federations to stamp out the scourge.

She said the meeting with the ICC team as a ``courtesy call''. ``We did not discuss the match-fixing issue,'' she added.

Ms. Bharati termed as a ``slip of tongue'' her recent statement in Bhopal that she was not satisfied with the Law Ministry.

- UNI

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