With arrest of six bookies in two separate raids, Delhi Police on Sunday claimed to have busted a racket of cricket betting running in Delhi’s Rohini and Shakti Nagar area. Police have also recovered 26 mobile phones, four laptop, two LED TVs, calculators have been recovered from the possession of the accused.
The accused have been identified as Sandeep (40) a resident of Mangol Pur Kalan, Pankaj (35), Arun (31), Rajeev Sachdeva (52), all residents of Delhi’s Rohini area, Amit (31) a resident of DC Colony in Sirsa, Haryana and Deepak Gupta (38), Delhi’s Shakti Nagar extension area. According to Rajiv Ranjan, the Additional Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, in first raid, on June 28, specific inputs were received regarding cricket betting being run in the area of Rohini, Delhi. “Bets were being placed on the cricket match between South Africa and Sri Lanka. Acting on the inputs a police team swung into action and raided a house in Rohini’s Sector-2 area. Sandeep, Pankaj, Arun and Amit were apprehended while they placing bets,” said the Additional CP.
“Police recovered 23 mobile phones, three laptops, seven registers, LED TV from their possession. All four were arrested under section ¾ DPG Act,” said the Additional CP.
“During interrogation, it was revealed that the accused used to receive the rates through a mobile app. Sandeep works as a scrap dealer in Mangolpuri. Pankaj also works as a scrap dealer in Rohini. Arun runs a mobile shop in Rohini and Amit works in a private firm in Sirsa, Haryana. The gang has been running the cricket betting racket since the past one and half years,” said the Additional CP.
Meanwhile, on June 27, the sleuths of Crime Branch in another raid apprehended Deepak Gupta and Rajeev Sachdeva while they were running the betting racket at Shakti Nagar Extension area. “The ‘bookies’ had already taken bets worth more than Rs 35 lakhs of stake money on the ongoing cricket match between India versus West Indies. Police team found that the betting rates of the match were being received continuously on a mobile phone.
Payment of the stake money was also being entered in laptop. Both the accused persons were arrested under section 3/4 DPG Act,” said the Additional CP. “During interrogation both the accused persons disclosed that they had had taken a flat in Shakti Nagar on a monthly rent for this purpose. Deepak works as a property dealer once in a while. Rajeev has a tyre puncture repairing shop in Ashok Vihar,” said the Additional CP adding that further investigation is going on.