Berasia police have arrested 13 persons for gambling and recovered Rs 60,000 cash from their possession in Barri Ghati area in the night on Wednesday.
Acting on a tip off over more than a dozen gamblers were caught gambling by Berasia police late in the night on Wednesday. Police received information that gamblers with big bets worth lakhs of rupees are gambling and on the receipt of the information the place was raided. Police said that the in the raid the gamblers were found gambling in open space . The raid was conducted after receiving information of suspicious activities in the area and based on the tip off raid when the raid was conducted gamblers were nabbed and around Rs 60,000 cash were recovered from their possession.
The nabbed accuseds were identified as Deepak, Rakesh, Nutan, Mahesh, Prakash, Rakesh, Dinesh, Shivnarayan, Shivraj, Mukesh, Dhanvari, Golu and Jamuna. All the gamblers are residents of Berasia and nearby areas.
Police said that few of the nabbed accused holds past crime record which would be searched. Most of the gamblers nabbed are labour and few work with private firm in the nearby areas while the main accused facilitating the gambling is yet to be identified.
During the investigation apart from the cash police have recovered mobile phones and transactions worth lakhs of rupees. It is possible that the gamblers were placing big bets but records of the bets were not found in the raid.
The police have registered a case under Gambling Act and started further investigation.