The Delhi Police arrested Dharam Pal Yadav under Sections 3 and 4 of MCOCA on charges of running an online betting racket under the garb of a Government authorised lottery system. lodged in Dehradun jail, Yadav has been brought to Delhi on Wednesday by the Delhi Police on Production Remand and has been charged under Sections of Delhi Gambling Act and IT Act.
According to a police official, privy to the investigation, on the intervening night of August 26 and 27, 2015, cops of the Bhajanpura police station of the Northeast district had received a tip off that a betting racket is running at a building in Bhajanpura. A trap was raid and police arrested 14 persons including 4 juveniles who were apprehended.
During their interrogation, one of the accused Shahnawaz revealed that he used to lure innocent people to betting to invest in the Government approved lottery system on the behest of his bosses. While there were three kingpins identified as Roshan lal Verma, Amarnath Bajaj and Yogeshwar Dayal Sharma, they all reoprted to Yadav. Highly placed sources said that Roshan lal Verma has strong links with UP ex Minister DP Yadav. Sources also said that the nexus of the betting racket is spread in states of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Delhi, Chandigarh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
During detailed interrogation and analysis of Call Detail Records, cops traced down that the racket was primarily owned by Dharam Pal Yadav, a UP politician cum gangster.