The Katni police on Sunday busted bookie racket involved in Indian Premiere league (IPl) betting and arrested four bookies. The police recovered slips of betting worth over Rs 1 crore, while around Rs 30,000 in cash was seized.
Katni Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh Hingadkar got information that Satta to the tune of lakhs of rupees was going on in an empty Government house located at Sarla Nagar under Kuthla police station. The informer told the SP that some miscreants are engaged in betting on the ongoing final match between Kolkata Night Riders (KKR) and Kings XI Punjab.
Acting on the tip-off the SP immediately formed a team in the leadership of Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Amit Sanghi and City Superintendent of Police (CSP) BP Singh with staff from Kotwali and Kuthla police stations besides District Crime branch and sent it to the spot for confirming the news.
After getting the conformation, the police team raided the house and arrested four miscreants including Manish Rai, Ranjeet Singh, Roshan Gupta and Vipin Jain and seized two line booking machines, 26 mobile phones, 2 television sets, one dish television set, inverter with battery, a laptop, a pen-drive, 2 tape recorders with cassettes, 2 calculators, 7 chargers, 2 telephone boxes, 3 receivers, an electronic extension box, cash Rs 30,255, one I-20 car and a Maruti 800 car.
When the laptop was checked it was found that bookings to the tune of Rs 1.26 crore were done by these bookies on the going final match of IPl 7 between KKR and Kings XI Punjab. All the four miscreants were arrested and a case was registered under section 4 A of the gambling act and section 66 of the IT act.