With the Indian Premier League (IPL) on, the menace of on-line cricket betting has made a comeback in Greater Hyderabad. Rachakonda police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a web based cricket betting racket with the arrest of seven individuals. The police seized property value Rs 56 lakh.
Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat advised reporters that on a tip-off, the Special Operations Team (SOT) carried out raid in Satya Nagar colony and apprehended seven accused and seized Rs 11.80 lakh money. The police additionally discovered over Rs 31 lakh in two financial institution accounts.
The raid was carried out when the accused had been accepting bookings for betting in the course of the match between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore.
A case below sections 3 and 4 of TS Gaming Act was booked towards the accused.
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Main organiser or bookie recognized as Tanniru Nagaraju, line operator Gundu Kishore, sub-bookies Tanniru Ashok and Chemmeti Vinod, punters Kotla Dinesh Bhargav, Medishetty Kishore, and Bojana Raju had been arrested. Two different accused are absconding. The key accused all hail from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.
Nagaraju was earlier arrested by Vanasthalipuram in the same case in 2016. He was working the betting racket together with his pal Kirhore and two distant family members Ashok and Vinod.
The bookies had organized telephonic traces and given numbers to punters. The betting begins after the primary ball of the match and goes on until the final ball. It fluctuates relying on the state of affairs of the match. The punters make calls to bookies in the course of the match and place their betting. The bookies by way of their assortment brokers had been accumulating cash from punters both in money or by way of on-line cost.
The Police Commissioner appealed to the youth to steer clear of betting. He mentioned registration of circumstances would mar their possibilities of securing passports and getting jobs. “It could also be enjoyable for at some point however you’ll have to endure for the remainder of your life,” he mentioned.
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