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Chandigarh police bust major cricket-betting racket, arrest four bookies | The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police on Sunday said that it had cracked a major cricket-betting racket and arrested four bookies in the city. Addressing the media in Chandigarh , Superintendent of Police (Crime)
of Chandigarh Police, Madhur Verma , said: “The arrested persons were operating
from a rented house and they were caught red-handed while laying bets for their
clients on the third ODI between India and Australia that was played at Ferozeshah
Kotla in New Delhi on Saturday.” “Rate was in the odds of 70 and Australia was
their favourite team,” he added. The arrested bookies have been identified as
Vijay Kumar , Sunil Malhotra , Shagan Lal and Vicky . Verma further said the betting
amount could shoot up to millions of rupees as few notebooks containing the names
of their clients were seized from the spot of the crime. The police have also
confiscated 40 mobile phones, one laptop, two television sets, three recording
devices and about hundred SIM cards from the house, which was used as a base by
the accused. “We also found a large number of mobile phones in their house, through
which they used to contact their clients and their counterparts in New Delhi and
Mumbai,” Verma added. He also informed that the Chandigarh Police would be
investigating
the links of this group with similar gangs operating in other States. With the
arrests ahead of the fourth ODI game between India and Australians to be played
at Mohali, the police claimed to have achieved great success. |
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