Shahjehanabad police arrested a dozen persons gambling and recovered Rs 24000 cash from their possession in Amriganj area on Sunday.
Acting on a tip off over more than a dozen gamblers were caught gambling by Shahjehanabad police at around 11 in the night on Sunday. Police received information that gamblers are gambling and on the receipt of the information a house was raided.
Police said that the in the raid the gamblers were found gambling in a house. 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 around Rs 24000 cash were recovered from their possession.
The nabbed accused were identified as Parvez, Ahmed, Naeem, Ayez, Imitiaz Khan, Naseem, Mohammad Hasan, Azhar, Dinesh Thakur and Faizan. The gambling was operated at Faizan’s house.
Police said that few of the nabbed accused holds past crime record which would be searched.
Apart from the cash police have recovered playing cards and mobile phones which would be checked in the investigation. It is possible that the gamblers were placing bets and transactions of the bets were maintained.
The police have registered a case under Gambling Act and started further investigation. The gamblers were found gambling and tried to escape but were nabbed by the police.