Imran Khan, a former cricketer and Pakistani Prime Minister, has been detained in connection with profit-making from the sale of expensive state gifts while in power.
The former state Congress chief was imprisoned last year after the Supreme Court sentenced him to one year of severe imprisonment for the death of a 65-year-old man in a 1988 road rage case.
Amit Mishra, a former India and Delhi Capitals leg-spinner, was detained by Bangalore police on suspicion of assaulting a woman in her hotel room.
In 2010, Mohammad Amir was arrested for spot-fixing and received a five-year ban for bowling two purposeful no-balls.
Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt, sentenced in November for 30 months for spot-fixing in the UK.
Sandeep Lamichhane, a Nepal cricketer, has been sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty of rape.
Makhaya Ntini, a 21-year-old fast bowler for the South African Test cricket team, was sentenced to six years in prison in 1999 for rape conviction.