Under special drive to nab gamblers and people facilitating betting gamblers and betting facilitators were nabbed from Aishbagh and Ashoka Garden police station and recovered Rs 46,700 cash from their possession late in the night on Tuesday.
In the search operation by the police team headed by ASP Zone 2 around 21 places were raided and 7 gamblers including kingpin in facilitating gambling and betting was nabbed.
From Aishbagh 5 gamblers were nabbed and recovered Rs 39200 cash was recovered while from Ashoka Garden area Rs 7500 cash was recovered from 2 persons who were nabbed during raid.
After the preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 13 of the Gambling Act and section 109 of the IPC and started further investigation.
Acting on a tip off over half a dozen gamblers were caught gambling by special search police team late in the night on Tuesday.
Police received information that gamblers with big bets are gambling and operate den for long in Aishbagh and Ashoka Garden area and on the receipt of the information the place was raided. The nabbed gamblers are notorious criminals and have crime record and police have taken strict action against the accused.
The nabbed were identified as Babu Mastan who is kingpin of betting and was booked for 8 crimes and action of externment has been taken against him. Pinki alias Bhupendra Bhadoria was booked for 10 crimes and has been externed, Sahil Khan has been booked under section 110 of the CrPC, Santu Baba alias Santur Kanjar was booked for 5 crimes has been externed, Chandan Kuchbandiya has been booked for 6 crimes has been externed, Gulshan alias Rajendra Ahirwar has been booked under section 110 of the CrPC while Lakhan Rajput has been externed.