The recent suicide of a 23-year-old youth, Nitin Khirwal at Jugsalai reportedly due to loss incurred by him in IPl match betting has brought the city police on their toes.
The cricket betting net has raised its ugly head in the city and has posed a big challenge for police. Electronic and physical survelliance systems have been beefed-up and existing links with various intelligence agencies have been put on alert.
While raiding the medical store, Jain Medicals, located at Jugsalai, the police nabbed the medical shop owner Nilesh Jain and a staff Kaushik Rudra with about 30 cell-phones, Rs 5,700 cash as well as computer from the shop. Besides this, the police recovered Rs 1.91 lakh from the house of Jain in Jugsalai.
But despite the raid, the police have not been able to get a substantial ground to arrest the duo.
When contacted officer-in-charge, Jugsalai police station, Arun Kumar Mishra pointed out that they had pressed a team of experts to find out some further evidence involving Jain and his staff’s in the IPl betting.
The officer-in-charge further informed to have sent the confiscated cell-phones to the cyber crime cell for finding out the call records so as to establish a link between Jain and those who might have contacted the accused for the betting during the IPl matches.
“We have now detained the two persons, but will be in a position to arrest them only when we establish that they were actually involved in the betting. The finding out call-details from the seized cell-phones is the only hope to book the two in a case for the betting,” said the officer-in-charge.
“We have increased our vigilance. Those with history of involvement in such rackets have been identified. Policemen will keep a close tab on activities and movements of these during IPl matches,” said another official. He went on to inform that markets that have a lot of bars, hotels, and restaurants, are under close scrutiny.
Deputy Superintendent of police (law and Order) Kanhaiya Upadhyaya, who is monitoring the investigation said that they are also getting the CPU of the computer scanned up beside taking out the call details from the cell-phones.
Sources pointed out that the police prompted to nab Jain and his staff Kaushik after they got a clue that the Nitin Kharwal was a regular better in the IPl matches and committed suicide following incurring a huge loss in the betting. The police are keeping a watch on those criminals who have been nabbed in the past for being involved in betting.