In a persistent crackdown, Crime Branch of Delhi Police has busted a betting syndicate in Rohini on Saturday. Four persons have been arrested in possession of 40 mobile phones, a TV set, mobile signal booster, laptop, printer, voice recorder along with notebooks used for entering the bets.
The information was received by the Anti-Snatching Cell, Crime Branch that there will be betting on an IPl cricket league match to be played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Mumbai Indians on April 30. The persons nabbed were later identified as Rakesh Sethi (45), Bantu Nagpal (33), Sanjay Hasija (32) and Vishu Sethi (22). It was learnt that accused Rakesh Sethi is a mechanical engineer. Police claimed the accused had acknowledged charges of betting in person and via mobile phones. “On a tip-off that a betting racket is being run from H. No 86, Green Hill Apartment, Pocket-1, Sec 23 in Rohini, an immediate raid was conducted after fulfilling necessary legal formalities and
the four were nabbed,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav. They had also provided lines to several other bookies. Three cell phones were being used as Dabba to broadcast rates to the bookies. The gang was earlier operating from Sonepat, Haryana but to delude police, they decided to shift to Rohini in order to run their ops incognito.