Piplani police has nabbed three gamblers from Manak Vihar on the charge of accepting bets on the India Vs New Zealand T20 third cricket match late in the night on Wednesday.
Acting on a tip off, regarding betting on the ongoing T20 cricket matches between India–New Zealand at Pramod Kumar Morolia’s house in Manak Vihar Anand Nagar police team raided the house and recovered Rs 12,200 cash and one LED TV set from his possession.
From the house, three persons were nabbed including the owner of the house, Pramod Kumar Morolia, while other two gamblers were identified as Pramod Kumar Jathav (29) and Prem Chouksey (52).
At the time of the raid, police have recovered Rs 4,000 cash, one set-top box, one LED TV set from Morolia, from Jathav police recovered Rs 3,500 cash and a register having details of transactions and Prem Chouksey police recovered Rs 4,700 cash.
During the probe, the accused confessed that they used to accept bets on matches. The reason for involvement in betting was making fast money which the accused told the police.
Police suspect that the accused were betting with the help of other accomplices located at different locations.
The mobile phone details of the nabbed accused would be searched to check the transactions found on the betting details recovered from the spot in the raid.
During the further investigation, more arrest would be made police said. Police have registered a case under section 3 and 4 of the Gambling Act.
