New Delhi: The Indian Premier League (IPL) cheerleaders were left in a state of shock, when the Raipur police on Wednesday raided their hotel rooms, that too without any warrant, said a report published in Times of India.
The cheer girls belonged to the Chennai Super Kings franchise that played an IPL match against Delhi Daredevils at Raipur. Most of them hail from England and Australia.
In shock seeing police in their rooms, the cheer girls rang up the event management company that arranged their association with the IPL.
The Kotwali police officials were reportedly seen storming the hotel, where the girls were staying, and questioned them for almost an hour. According to the sources of TOI, that the police did not have any raid warrant and called it a "routine check".
The hotel staff labelled it as "strong-arm tactics" without "any evidence".
In fact, it was not just the cheerleaders, who faced the heat, as the raiding officials didn't even spare the guests and media covering the IPL, who were staying in the hotel. Police knocked at their rooms to check for the cheerleaders.
"It's ridiculous that we are being treated like this by the cops," one of the cheer girls told the newspaper.
"They could have contacted our event manager directly rather than rushing straight to our rooms. We all have work permits and we have been associated with Bollywood. We have never had such a bad experience in India," she added.
Since the IPL spot-fixing controversy broke out, cheer girls stay in a different hotel and not the same where the team they represent is lodged.
City Superintendent of Police of Kotwali Police circle Anshuman Singh Sisodiya stated regarding the incident, "It was routine checking. We were informed about some foreign girls checking in a hotel under Kotwali Police circle. A team led by senior police official visited the hotel and checked the rooms of the girls just to make sure there wasn't anything suspicious.".
