Bairagarh police have arrested a 22-year-old habitual criminal for violating Bound Over action and was found involved in facilitating betting during special drive to take action against habitual gamblers and people involved in illegal trade of drugs by district police on Thursday.
The accused identified as Imran Khan was found involved in facilitating betting along with two others identified as Dinesh Bhatt and Ravi Adwani. In the special drive aimed to curb and nab the gambling and betting nexus and their masterminds police have raided several places in the past one week.
Police recovered Rs 7000 cash from Ravi, Rs 4000 cash from Imran and Rs 2000 cash from Dinesh and betting slips. The police have registered case under section 4 of the Gambling Act.
During the investigation police found that action of Bound Over of Rs 25000 was taken against Imran. He was scheduled to appear in police station on June 30 in an externment case but he failed to appear and continue criminal activities. Police have registered case under section 122 of the CrPC and started further investigation. Bariagarh police have book Imran under several cases of gambling, betting, possession of arms illegally, assault and other cases and he is listed in the goonda list of Bairagarh police.