Four bookies held in Chhattisgarh
March 4th, 2011 - 1:29 pm ICT by IANSRaipur, March 4 (IANS) Four bookies were arrested during a raid here while betting at least Rs.10 million on a cricket World Cup match, police said Friday.
“Four punters were arrested in a raid Thursday night. A detailed investigation of paper slips and other documents recovered at a farm house indicated that they were operating satta (gambling) of not less than Rs.10 million,” Additional Superintendent of Police (Raipur) Ajatshatru Bahadur told reporters.
He said police were interrogating bookies - Nitin Tiwari, Chandrasekhar Thakur, Sanjay Agrawal and Lalit Thakur - to arrest their associates involved in the betting racket.
Crime branch sleuths raided the farm house in Datrenga area in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur when the match between Pakistan and Canada was underway in Sri Lanka.
Police recovered several tape recorders and 14 mobile phones besides other electronic equipment.
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