* Jamula elected umpires' association president

Mumbai-based international umpire BC Jamula has been elected as the president of The Association of Cricket Umpires in India. K Parthasarathy of Andhra Pradesh and SK Sharma of Mumbai will be the vice-presidents while MR Singh, also of Mumbai, has been elected as the secretary, an association release said in Mumbai on Sunday.

While SC Gupta of Uttar Pradesh will be the joint secretary, SK Bansal of Delhi has been elected as the treasurer, it added.

The managing committee members are: Suresh Deo (Maharashtra), Amish Sahiba (Gujarat), LP Verma (Bihar), S Banerjee (Bengal), AV Jayprakash (Karnataka), KG Laxminarayanan (Tamil Nadu), Sudhir Asnani (Madhya Pradesh), Balwant Sharma (Rajasthan), Devinder Sharma (Delhi) and HS Sekhon (Punjab).

* Prabhakar gets interim bail

Former Test cricketer Manoj Prabhakar was on Friday given an interim three-month bail by the Uttaranchal High Court in the chit fund case. Justice PC Verma gave the orders on a petition filed by Prabhakar, police said. The cricketer was arrested on July 2 from his south Delhi office by Uttaranchal police following non-bailable warrants issued by a Haldwani court against him in the chit fund case involving Apace India Limited.

Uttaranchal police had filed a charge sheet in a Nainital district court last month alleging that Prabhakar was director of Apace investment, a chit fund company, which is alleged to have defrauded and cheated people while accepting deposits from them.

Meanwhile, the condition of Prabhakar, who was admitted to a private nursing home on July 3 in Haldwani following a suspected brain stroke, continued to be stable, doctors attending on him said.

* Eight arrested for betting on Ashes Test released on bail

All the eight persons arrested on Friday on the charge of involvement in betting on the fourth Ashes Test between England And Australia, were on Saturday released on bail, police said.

The accused, all hailing from Kolhapur in Maharashtra, were arrested from a local hotel under sections three and four of the Goa Gambling Act, police said, adding as the offence was bailable they were released by Judicial Magistrate First Class, Panaji.

Cash worth Rs 50,000 and 19 mobile phones were also recovered from the accused, police said. Entries in documents seized from the accused revealed that they had received bets amounting to over Rs 25 lakhs. Police are also probing their links with Mumbai bookies.

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