An illegal casino-cum-bar, being run in a 13-acre farmhouse in south Delhi’s Fatehpur Beri, has been busted and 30 people have been arrested, the police said on Wednesday.
Police said that the casino was being run for the last two months from the farmhouse. The farmhouse was also rented out for shooting of various TV serials and films, they added.
On Tuesday night, a Delhi Police team raided the casino and nabbed 30 people, including 14 players and five women casino-cum-bar attendants, a senior police official said. The owner of the property was also arrested, the official added. The police have also seized 13 luxury vehicles from the spot.
On Tuesday, the Vigilance Branch of south district received a secret information that a high-profile casino racket was being run from a farmhouse at Dera Mandi Road, Fatehpur Beri in south Delhi, the police said.
A team of Sub-Inpector (SI) Kailash Chand, SI Jitender Singh, ASI Ramesh Sharma, ASI Shailendra, ASI Vinod, HC Paramjeet Singh from Vigilance Branch of South District and SI Yogesh Kumar, SI Manoj Kumar, SI Ved Prakash, ASI Tahir Hussain, Constable Amit and Constable Kavinder from Malviya Nagar police station under the overall supervision of Ram Singh, Assistant Commissioner of Police (South) district.
Around 11 pm, a trap was laid at the farmhouse. Many people were seen inside carrying playing cards and gambling on four big tables, the police said. The men on each table were being helped by the organisers and the attendants. The police team recovered gambling chips worth crores of rupees from the spot, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Ishwar Singh.
During inquiry, it was found that the property belongs to one Suresh Yadav, who was also arrested. Police have also seized gambling coins worth over a crore from the spot and 56 liquor bottles along with 45 packets of playing cards and 468 playing cards, said the DCP.