Sreesanth's father blames Harbhajan and Dhoni for his arrest

Cricketer S Sreesanth’s father Shanthakumaran Nair has blamed India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and teammate Harbhajan Singh for implicating his son in the spot-fixing scandal, saying his son is the victim of a larger conspiracy.

“Dhoni and Harbhajan conspired to finish his cricketing career,” said Nair. “The latter had executed this with the help of a deputy superintendent of police in Punjab. Dhoni had threatened him recently that he won’t don the Indian cap again.”
 

Sreesanth was very close to Dhoni and knew many of his personal details, his father said, without explicitly saying what it had to do with this case.

“Dhoni had threatened him that he would never be taken back in the test side.” his father said.

His brother in law, Madhu Balakrishnan, a prominent south Indian playback singer, said that the trap was a plot to destroy Sreesanth’s marriage plans.
Sreesanth is highly principled and pious and cannot do this, his mother said.