The Pauri district police arrested a total of five persons including two punters, two persons with Ganja and one person with liquor. According to official sources, the Srinagar Kotwali police and Pauri team led by Pauri circle officer Dhan Singh Tomar, constituted by Pauri senior superintendent of police Mukhtar Mohsin, arrested two persons in a hotel situated along the Badrinath Road in Srinagar at 10 pm on the weekend for betting on the IPl cricket match. The police recovered Rs1,64,800 in cash along with four mobile phones, two diaries and one television from the duo. The arrested persons were identified as natives of Srinagar, Raj Kumar Mahajan and Vaivab Arora. The Srinagar Kotwali police registered a case against the accused under section 3/4 of the Gambling Act. In another incident, the Kotdwar Kotwali police arrested two youths at the station in Kotdwar and recovered 51 kilogrammes of Ganja from five bags the duo had in possession. In the third case, the Pauri Kotwali police arrested one person at Kandoliya in Pauri with 19 bottles of illegal Indian made foreign liquor (IMFl).