Crime branch police arrested six persons on the charge of gambling and recovered Rs 30000 cash, playing cards from their possession in Awadhpuri on Thursday.
Acting on a tip off, around two half a dozen gamblers were caught gambling by crime branch police late in the night on Thursday from a house in Deep Nagar.
Police said that the in the raid the gamblers were found gambling in a room and in the raid around Rs 30000 cash was recovered from their possession. The gambling was operated at second floor of Raju Anna’s house.
The nabbed accused were identified as Subhash Khare (48) of Saket Nagar, Anil Pawar(48) of Saket Nagar, OP Chouksey (39), Sonu Mehra(30), Hitesh Patel(28) and Sandeep Soni(45) of Barkheda Pathani.
During the raid police recovered mobile phones which were used by the gamblers and police suspect that the mobile phones were also used to place bet at the spot. The call record details of the mobile phones would be investigated.
Police found that Subhash deals in steel fabrication work, Anil, OP and Hitesh are contractors, Sonu works as labour and Sandeep is shopkeeper. The crime record of the six would be investigated in the further investigation.
Meanwhile, Shahpura police arrested 5 persons on the charge of gambling and recovered Rs 5000 cash, playing cards from their possession in Ishwar Nagar on Thursday.
Police said that acting on a tip off five gamblers were caught gambling by Shahpura police in the night on Friday from a shanty of Ishwar Nagar. Heera Singh, Haneef, Vikram, Durga Prasad and Pawan were nabbed.