The ugly side of the glamorous Indian Premier league has started showing its colours across the country, after the spot fixing exposure by the Delhi police flood of IPl betting rackets exposure is pouring in from every nook and corner of the country including the Madhya Pradesh.
Two similar cases are reported in the State; one in Rewa, where five bookies were arrested by the police while the Ujjain police has busted an Indian Premier league betting syndicate and arrested four persons whom they suspect were working on the direction of their "bosses" based in Mumbai and Bangalore.
On a tip-off, a team of Ujjain police apprehended the suspected racketeers from a house located at Maxi Road area here on Friday night, police said. Police recovered betting slips to the tune of `50 lakh, a laptop, 21 cell phones and two registers from their possession.
“The mobile phones of the four arrested persons are being examined to find out the places they are connected with," Ujjain SP Anurag Kumar said without elaborating.
According to police, the suspected bookies were operating under their bosses based in Mumbai and Bangalore.
The arrested persons were identified as Parth Nigam, Arush Shreeram Sharma both from Ujjain Deepak Tiwari from Indore and Ankur Sharma belonging to Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh, police said.
Meanwhile, the Rewa police has arrested five persons. Among those arrested in Rewa one is said to be close to a player. The police in Rewa arrested an old bookie of the Sindhi camp area and after that picked four more persons for the crime.