The Gwalior Crime Branch police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a high level inter-state satta racket being operated from Gwalior and Agra.
On a tip off the Crime Brach police raided the betting counters from where the bookies were operating the betting business. Police arrested one Abhimanyu Singh aka Tony and seized cash, mobile phones, computers and other betting records. On interrogation Tony told the police that the mastermind is in Agra and that he is only a local link. The accused also has given the names of a dozen youths who have been acting as local agents. According to sources in the crime branch all these youths are residents of the Morar area of the city. Currently all these youths are absconding and search operations are going on at their known hideouts.
According to sources the accused were running the racket from a hotel situated in the City Centre area of the city. The sources further said that currently the police are analyzing the data from the seized computers and the mobile phones that were used by the accused to accept bets.
It is believed that the network of the racket is spread all over North India and that the amount involved is in many crores.
As per unconfirmed reports the crime branch sleuths have also come across some links of the bookies with some politicians in Agra. Sources in the police said that the arrested bookie has revealed that the mastermind of the racket has links with many politicians.
Speaking to the media persons, Damodar Gupta, TI, Crime Branch said that the crime branch is in possession of the address and photo of the mastermind of the racket. He added that a police party has been sent to Agra to apprehend him.