Cricket betting racket busted, three held
August 23rd, 2010 - 4:12 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, Aug 23 (IANS) Three people have been arrested on charges of running a cricket betting racket in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, police said Monday.
“We were receiving information for the past few months that a cricket betting racket was operating in the New Town area. Acting on specific information, the three were arrested from a housing apartment late Sunday,” a senior police officer said.
“The trio was arrested on charges of running a cricket betting racket. We have initiated an investigation into the matter to nab the other members of the gang,” District Superintendent of Police Rahul Srivastav said.
The three have been identified as Rajkumar Agarwal of Lake Town, Narayan Chaudhury of Howrah district and Ram Lakshman Prasad of Bihar. They were presented in the Barasat court and remanded to seven days’ police custody.
During the raid in the housing apartment, eight cellphones, two calculators, four landline phones, one colour TV and several other documents were recovered. The flat has been sealed, police said.
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