{"id":60109,"date":"2025-08-30T02:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/ipl-why-slapgate-video-stayed-hidden-for-years-harsha-bhogle-explains-as-lalit-modi-stirs-row\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T02:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:36:12","slug":"ipl-why-slapgate-video-stayed-hidden-for-years-harsha-bhogle-explains-as-lalit-modi-stirs-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/ipl-why-slapgate-video-stayed-hidden-for-years-harsha-bhogle-explains-as-lalit-modi-stirs-row\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL: Why &#8216;Slapgate&#8217; video stayed hidden for years \u2014Harsha Bhogle explains as Lalit Modi stirs row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lalit Modi&#8217;s revelation of unseen footage of the 2008 Harbhajan-Sreesanth &#8216;slap-gate&#8217; has reignited the controversy. The incident, where Harbhajan slapped Sreesanth, was captured by Modi&#8217;s security camera but never released. Harsha Bhogle explained the video was suppressed to protect the nascent IPL&#8217;s image, a decision now drawing criticism despite the players&#8217; reconciliation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lalit Modi&#8217;s revelation of unseen footage of the 2008 Harbhajan-Sreesanth &#8216;slap-gate&#8217; has reignited the controversy. The incident, where Harbhajan slapped Sreesanth, was captured by Modi&#8217;s security camera but never released. Harsha Bhogle explained the video was suppressed to protect the nascent IPL&#8217;s image, a decision now drawing criticism despite the players&#8217; reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":60110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}