The Chhola Mandir police on Monday morning arrested 17 persons while gambling and recovered Rs 2 lakh cash in cash and 28 mobile phones from their possession at Atal Nehru Nagar.
Acting on a tip off, over a dozen gamblers were caught gambling by Chola Mandir police in the evening on Monday.
The accused gamblers chose an abandoned and dilapidated house for gambling. The police raided the place late in the night on Monday. The gamblers tried to escape the spot but where nabbed by the police. One of the gamblers managed to escape the spot.
SHO of Chhola Mandir Pankaj Dwivedi said that 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 2 lakh cash were recovered from their possession.
Eight of the accused are of Atal Nehru Nagar while the others are from different parts of the city. Most of the nabbed gamblers were in age group of 25 to 35 years.
Providing further details Dwivedi said that the room was taken on rent by Afaque who escaped and possibly he used to arrange gambling. The police have registered a case under section 3 and 4 of the Gambling Act and started further investigation.
The nabbed accused were identified as Rahul Choudhary,Rohan Sharma, Vikas Rajput, Ashok Vishwakarma, Dhruv Singh, Rashid Akbar, Amjad, Mohammad Raees, Dharmendra Nahar, Sandeep Anant, Amit Singh, Ubed Ali, Dileep Sahu, Sahid Ali, Imamuddin, Saif Ali and Mohan.