Crime Branch Bhopal arrested two bookies who were betting on an IPL cricket match and recovered cash Rs 22500 and 4 mobile phones from their possession.
The accused used to write the number of cricket bets in the register through mobile phone calls from the customers.
Four mobile phones, one Samsung LED setup box, remote and cash were accused, one of their partners is absconding.
On the receipt of information of two persons about IPL cricket bets on their mobiles and TVs in flat number 5 near Zeenat Manzil Kallubua Mosque.
At the spot two persons were watching an IPL cricket match between Chennai and Gujarat and Rajasthan and Lucknow and accepting bets using mobile phones. They were writing in the IPL cricket betting register and were doing the transaction of money in cricket betting through mobile.
The two accused were identified as Ilyas Baig alias Kuchi(42) and Mubeen Baig (37).
Meanwhile a 59-year-old woman was robbed of her mobile phone by a miscreant at Danish Nagar on Sunday while she was on her way to meet her visit relative in the same locality.
Police said that the victim Sushma Thakur was robbed while she was on her way to meet relatives in the morning.
The victim in her complaint stated that a miscreant snatched and escaped with a mobile phone over which she was talking as she picked up call which she received near her house.
Based on the complaint after the preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 392 of the IPC and started searching for the accused.