Cricket betting racket busted in Chhattisgarh
March 6th, 2011 - 2:19 pm ICT by IANSRaipur, March 6 (IANS) Police in the Chhattisgarh capital have unearthed a cricket betting racket worth Rs.100 million (Rs.10 crore) and arrested four bookies while they were accepting bets on the cricket World Cup match between Australia and Sri Lanka.
“We raided a flat Saturday evening in Mahoba bazaar and arrested four people who were accepting bets on the World Cup match between Australia and Sri Lanka,” Additional Superintendent of Police (Raipur) Ajatshatru Bahadur told reporters here Sunday.
He added that the crime branch sleuths arrested the four bookies Ramesh, Jitendra, Lawesh and Vidhan.
Police said that the four were involved in an inter-state betting racket for years. Lawesh and Jitendra are residents of Nagpur while the rest live here.
“There are enough documents and electronic items such as recorders that were seized that show that they had collected a whopping sum of Rs.100 million (Rs.10 crore) as bets from various parts of the country,” he said.
In another raid, police had arrested four bookies from a farm house here March 3 who had accepted bets totalling around Rs.10 million (Rs.1 crore) on the World Cup match between Pakistan and Canada.
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