In a major breakthrough, city police on Friday unearthed an online betting racket at Mahalaxmi Nagar locality and also arrested six bookies. A team of lasudia police led by TI PS Ranawat raided a house at Mahalaxmi Nagar and unearthed the online betting racket. The police party also arrested six alleged bookies from the spot. They were identified as Rahul Singh (24), son of Phool Singh of Anuraag Nagar, Rajesh Garg (30), son of Govind Garg, a resident of Brij Vihar colony (Rau), Dainy (23), son of Suresh Kushwah of Palsad Road, Raipur (Barwani), Kailash (32), son of Kishan Singh Solanki, Pawar (31), son of Badri Mukati and Mangilal, son of Jawan Singh. They are all residents of lonsara village, Barwani district.
During the raid, the police also recovered large number of documents including betting slips worth Rs2 crore, a cash of Rs10,000, 39 mobile phones, three laptops, two lCD monitors, one mobile recorder and five remotes. lasudia TI P S Ranawat informed that the bookies had betted a sum of Rs2 crore for the ongoing Tri-series in Australia, the first match of which was won by Australia on Thursday. The police officer disclosed the raid was conducted following a tip-off and further informed that earlier they had sent an intelligence squad around a house in Mahalaxmi Nagar. The raid was conducted only after getting confirmation that the betting was done in that particular house.
The accused, according to police, were running betting racket at a rented double-storey house. The accused were working for a monthly contract of Rs8,000 - Rs10,000. Their main job was to either to raise or lower the betting amount. The accused had connected themselves with 10 betting links which located at Dhar, Manawar, Harda, Barwani, Khargone, Khandwa, Mhow, Bhopal, Dewas and Ujjain. It was through these links that they used to receive phone calls from their customers by diverting it through recording machines. TI Ranawat informed that they had launched manhunt to arrest kingpin of the betting link, who in all probability appeared to be native of Indore.