The Delhi Police on Friday busted another illegal casino operating in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj area and arrested eight people, including four girls.
“Gurgaon-based businessmen Tusar Baweja, Pawan Sharma, Manish Verma have been arrested, along with Gulshan Arora, who is the mastermind and organiser,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police, South, district, Ishwar Singh.
Four girls who were earlier working in casinos in Goa and were employed in the casino, have also been arrested, the DCP said.
Acting on a tip-off, a team from Vasant Kunj (South) police station conducted a raid at a farmhouse named Park lane in Vasant Kunj and found that people were playing casino. Police said in the raid seized three large casino tables, stake money worth Rs 43,500 in cash, 2,968 gambling tokens and 85 bottles of liquor and beer and seven packets of playing cards.
It was found that premises belongs to one Madhu Bala a resident of Kishangarh in South Delhi and the same was given on rent to the arrested accused namely Gulshan Arora for an initial period of three months of Rs 2.5 lakhs per months. Further investigation is in progress to probe the role of landlady in running the casino.
“Two separate cases under relevant sections of Delhi Public Gambling Act and Delhi Excise Act have been registered,” said Singh.
Police will try to ascertain whether the landlady of the property, Madhu Bala, knew about the casino being run at her property, he added.