Hanumanganj police arrested 14 persons gambling and recovered Rs 1.12 lakh cash from their possession in Silawatpura on Saturday.
Acting on a tip off over more than a dozen gamblers were caught gambling by Hanumangaj police late in the night on Saturday.
Police received information that gamblers with big bets worth lakhs of rupees are gambling and on the receipt of the information the place was raided.
Police said that the in the raid the gamblers were found gambling in a room. 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 1.12 lakh cash were recovered from their possession.
The nabbed accuseds were identified as Shahwar Khan, Raja Miyan, Mohammad Shafeeq, Raees, Masud, Arif, Jitendra, Mehboob Khan, Arif Ali, Mohammad Shafeeq, Badshah, Faraz and Vivek. All the gamblers are residents of Silawatpura.
Police said that few of the nabbed accused holds past crime record which would be searched. Most of the gamblers nabbed work in the shop in the nearby areas and few are traders.
Apart from the cash police have recovered mobile phones and transactions worth lakhs of rupees. It is possible that the gamblers were placing big bets and records of the bets were maintained.
The police have registered a case under Gambling Act and started further investigation. Behind Kundan Namkeen shop the gamblers were found gambling and tried to escape but were nabbed by the police.