With Haryana based Ajit Chandila being arrested along with Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan in the spot fixing scam, the State police is looking into the betting operations going on in cricket.
Haryana Police had arrested more than three dozen bookies in the last six months across the State.
On May 12, Panchkula Police busted two gangs of bookies who had set up an elaborate system in the city to rope in people for betting on IPl matches.
Eleven bookies had been arrested from Sector 21 and Mansa Devi complex area in the city, which rented out the rooms and had bought laptops to carry out betting. They used to get calls on their cell-phones and keep a record of people on the laptops, who would bet on the matches, to carry out this illegal activity.
Commissioner of Police, Panchkula-Ambala range, Rajbir Deswal, said that the gang of bookies used to make entries of people into the computers who betted on the results of a cricket match. They were found to have been arranging for bets on an IPl match between Delhi and Rajasthan. Police also recovered 3 laptops, 3 television sets and cash of nearly Rs 1.2 lakh from their possession as well as around 20 mobile phones.
In February 2013, state police had arrested a man from old Anaj Mandi area of Rohtak town, involved in online betting on cricket and seized 140 mobile phones. The accused was betting on the India-Australia Test at Chennai. A diary, mobile charger, a television and a laptop were recovered from his possession.
In May 2012, state police, arrested seven people from Sirsa district on charges of accepting bets on an Indian Premier league (IPl) match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Pune Warriors India. Rs 60,000, a coloured television, 13 mobile phones, two laptops, a DVD player, two pen drives, a calculator and an accounts book were recovered from their possession.