Koh-e-Fiza police arrested 9 persons on the charge of gambling and recovered Rs 42,200 cash, playing cards from their possession in Halalpura on Saturday.
On the receipt of the information that gamblers are betting at Sai Pooja apartment in Sawan Nagar police team rushed to the spot and raided the place where nine persons were found gambling. The house was taken in the name of tattoo training by Naresh Kewlani who is also booked along with the gamblers.
Police said that the in the raid the gamblers were found gambling in flat no. S-1 and in the raid around Rs 42200 cash was recovered from their possession.
The call record details of the mobile phones recovered from the accused would be investigated.
The details of the gamblers nabbed would be investigated in the further investigation who were idendtified as Pankaj Nathani alias Panku (28), Hitesh Thadani(28), Palash Ramchandani(28) , Nikki Lekhwani(25), Hitesh Chandani(29), Saurav Vaswani (30), Dheeraj Gehani (26), Ashish Sevakani (27) and Bharat Tolani (26). The nabbed gamblers are resident of Bairagarh and involved in businesses.
The crime record of the accused could not be ascertained and Bairagarh police would be asked to shed information.
Police have registered a case under Gambling Act against the accused.
Apart from the Gambling Act the accused were also booked under sections 188, 269 and 270 of the IPC.
Police would also investigate that the gamblers managed to reach and gather at the place by crossing the checking done at several place.