Five bookies have been arrested on the charge of placing bets on an English County cricket match and various equipment seized during a raid on a house at Rajpur Sub-Divisional headquarters, police said.
“On a tip-off, a joint police team raided businessman Dinesh Agrawal’s house on Saturday and arrested him along with his brother Pawan and three other people Kamal, Shankar and Vinod,” said Superintendent of Police RC Burra. The bets were being placed on the ongoing match between Hampshire and Surrey in Birmingham in England.Besides Rs 10,000 cash and betting accounts of about Rs 6 lakh, two laptops, 28 mobile phones and a television set were seized.