{"id":623765,"date":"2026-04-22T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623765\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:09:13","slug":"three-puducherry-cricketers-suspended-on-assault-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623765\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Puducherry cricketers suspended on assault charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/puducherry-1156782\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Puducherry<\/a> cricketers &#8211; J Karthiyeyan, A Aravindaraj and S Santhosh Kumaran &#8211; have been suspended from &#8220;all cricketing activities&#8221; conducted by the Cricket Association of Puducherry (CAP), following charges of assault on an Under-19 coach.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, CAP said the three players were involved &#8220;in a grave criminal case, including charges of attempt to murder and assault on Mr. Venkataraman, CAP&#8217;s U19 coach&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The CAP said the incident occurred on December 8, 2025, and that a &#8220;formal chargesheet has been filed&#8221; in the Sedurapet Police Station, with the matter &#8220;currently pending before the Hon&#8217;ble Judicial Magistrate &#8211; IV Court, Puducherry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the incident, the CAP ordered the following sanctions against the players:<\/p>\n<p>They are suspended with immediate effect from all cricketing activities conducted under the aegis of CAP.<\/p>\n<p>They are strictly prohibited and banned from entering the CAP Siechem campus, Tutipet, Pondicherry and any CAP-controlled premises until further orders.<\/p>\n<p>They shall not be permitted to represent CAP in any capacity in domestic or external cricket tournaments\/activities.<\/p>\n<p>This suspension shall remain in force until the Hon&#8217;ble Court adjudicates the matter and clears the accused of all charges.<\/p>\n<p>Puducherry were last in action in domestic cricket during Ranji Trophy 2025-26, where they finished sixth in Group D after winning one of their seven matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Puducherry cricketers &#8211; J Karthiyeyan, A Aravindaraj and S Santhosh Kumaran &#8211; have been suspended from &#8220;all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-623765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}