The Shahpura police has arrested 15 persons on the charge of gambling and recovered Rs 25,000 cash and online transactions worth Rs 1.5 lakh from their possession in Bengali Mohalla on Thursday.
Acting on a tip-off, more than a dozen gamblers were caught gambling by Shahpura police in the night of Thursday.
Police received information that gamblers with big bets were gambling and on the receipt of the information the place was raided and arrested 15 gamblers from the place.
Police said that the in the raid the gamblers were found gambling in a room. The raid was conducted after receiving information of suspicious activities in the area and based on the tip off raid when the raid was conducted gamblers were nabbed and Rs 25,000 cash was recovered from their possession.
In the raid police found online transactions worth Rs 1.5 lakh were also done. The mobile phones of the accused were seized which could help in further investigation.
Meanwhile, Talaiya police have nabbed a 24-year-old youth for sodomising a minor boy in Talaiya area on Thursday.
Police said the victim was sodomised in the afternoon after he was lured to visit building by the accused identified as Mohammad Salman.
The victim lodged a complaint with the Talaiya police and in his complaint victim stated that while on his way to home the victim was lured of by accused and took him and sodomised him. After the atrocity accused threatened him of life and warned him not to report the incident to parents or any other person.
Based on the complaint and after the preliminary investigation, the police registered a case under sections 377 and 506 of the IPC and sections 3 and 4 of the Protection of Children against Sexual Offence Act 2012 and have started further investigation.