Chennai based hotelier Vikram Aggarwal was on Monday arrested by Crime Branch-CID of Tamil Nadu Police, which is probing the IPL betting case on charges of his links with a bookie and betting.

The arrest came at the end of a seven hour long gruelling

questioning by the CB-CID in its office at Guindy here after he earlier came under the agency’s scanner in the wake of his name surfacing in the betting scam.

CB-CID Deputy Superintendent of Police Venkataraman told

reporters here that preliminary enquiry revealed that Aggarwal was closely associated with bookie Uttam C Jain, alias Kitty, who has already been arrested in the betting racket.

Elaborating on the reasons that prompted the agency to arrest Aggarwal,he said the accused has confessed to having information on pitch conditions and other details on IPL matches.