Chhola Mandir police arrested four persons on the charge of gambling and recovered Rs 1.41 lakh cash, one car, 11 two wheelers and 6 mobile phones from their possession on Saturday. Acting on a tip off, around four gamblers were caught gambling by police late in the night.
Police received information that gamblers with big bets are gambling at Bhanpur and the gambling is facilitated by habitual criminals of the area and based on the information the place was raided where 4 persons were found gambling.
The main accused Rohit Pandit who used to operate gambling managed to escape while police managed to nab 4 people from the spot. Police said that the in the raid the gamblers were found gambling in a room and in the raid around Rs 1.41 lakh cash was recovered from their possession.
During the raid police recovered one car, 11 two wheelers and 6 mobile phones and mobile phones 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.
The nabbed gamblers were identified as Bhagwandas (50) of Bhanpur, Subodh Sharma (62) of Coach Factory area, Ramesh Dangi (45) of Sehore and Pintu Yadav (31) of old Subhash Nagar.
The close aides of the main accused would be quizzed to reveal his whereabouts which could help in the arrest of the accused. The details of the gamblers nabbed would be investigated in the further investigation.