The Central Crime Branch (CCB) busted a cricket betting racket and nabbed six people in this connection, police sources said on Sunday. Record of betting amount to the tune of over Rs2.55 crore, cash, electronic gadgets, motorcycles, etc were seized from their possession, CCB officials informed. The persons arrested on charges of betting were identified as Dilip Chawla alias Dillu (39), Manoj Chawla (36), Anil Chawla (32), Harish Panjwani (25), Roshan Matlani (28) and Abrar Khan (27), all residents of Raipur.
“A ‘Satta-patti’ having records of more than Rs2.55 crore, cash Rs52,600, lED television set, laptop, 20 mobile handsets, three motorcycles and other electronic gadgets were recovered from their possession,” said CCB Inspector Sanjay Singh. We had received the tip-off about betting going on over the Cricket World Cup match in New Shanti Nagar locality, accordingly, a team of CCB sleuths swung into action and conducted the raid while nabbing six persons, he said.
According to Singh, preliminary investigation revealed that the arrested were betting on a World Cup match played between Pakistan and Ireland. They have been booked under the Gambling Act.