Police arrested 15 persons including a professor of a private univeristy for betting on IPl matches from two separate places in the city . Superintendent of Police (SP) Ghaziabad City, Akash Tomar said that among 15 arrested is a man who was selected as a scientist for Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and is working as a professor with a private university.
Identified as Sachin Tyagi, he has been also selected as a scientist with DRDO but he did not join since his wife aws also teachingas associate professor in same the university where he teaches, Tomar said.
The police have recovered Rs 55,000 from two places, a CPU, two lEDs, a set top box, a recording box, a WIFI device, 17 mobile phones and batting receipts from two places.
Tyagi is professor of mathematics with the university at Greater Noida. Other accused have been identified as Bittu alias Deepanshu Sharma, Prateek Kaushik, Manoj, Gutpreet Singh, Samir Saint, Deepak Garg, Feroz, a B.Tech, Irshad,Saleem, Vasim all three ola dtivers. Others are Vakil, Shahrukh, Subham Tyagi and house owner Farman.
“Investigation is underway and we are going to write to software companies to prevent the misuse of their apps for betting”, Tomar added.