Crime branch police nabbed seven gamblers accepting bets on the ongoing IPl T20 matches from Govind Garden area on Tuesday and recovered betting slips having transactions of worth lakhs of rupees, 38 mobile phones, two lED TV, one set top box, and call recorder from their possession.
Acting on a tip off seven miscreants were nabbed who were caught accepting bets on IPl matches. The nabbed miscreants were operating betting from a rented room in Govind Garden area.
The accused are from different regions and would team up during the IPl T20 matches for betting.
The accused are from Jhansi, Datia, Banda and Bhopal.
ASP (Crime) Rashmi Mishra said that one of the accused Hemant Agrawal was tenant of the house where the racket was operated. The other accused who are from Datia and other areas where in search of new place and found the rented house of Hemant suitable for betting.
The nabbed were identified as Hemant Tiwari (25) of Jhansi and runs business of packed snacks, Pramod Kumar (28) of Banda U.P and is a farmer, latif Khan (28) of Datia and works as accountant at Galla Mandi, Rohit Sitole(19) of Jehangirbad Bhopal and is student, Vikas Yadav (22) of Datia and is farmer, Harish Yadav (23) of Datia and is a farmer, Akash Yadav(24) iof Datia and is a farmer.
The accused confessed that they work during the day and after working hours they would involve in betting in their areas and have built a big network of gamblers who bet on these matches.