JAIPUR: The police on Friday night arrested six bookies for allegedly betting on the IPL matches in Jaipur.
The state’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) conducted the raid following which the accused were handed over to the local police.
The bookies apparently have international links and cops are interrogating them to get more details about the network.
The accused were arrested from Sez police station area.
They have been identified as Shubham Prajapat (21), Ankit Sharma (24), Tarun Kumar (29), Saurabh Sharma (24), Indra Kumar (24) and Chirag Mehta (30).
“Acting on a tip-off, we conducted a raid on Friday night and arrested the six persons who were bookies and were betting on IPL matches. We have seized diaries which have accounts of over Rs 25 lakh. The investigation is underway and the accused are being questioned,” said an official who is part of the probe.
Apart from the diaries, cops also recovered two laptops and 25 mobile phones from the accused.
With IPL matches underway in UAE, the Rajasthan police have been regularly arresting alleged bookies. In a major action against them earlier this month, the ATS had simultaneously raided five locations in three states and arrested seven bookies from Cyberabad in Telangana while the remaining from Jaipur.
In Delhi and Nagaur, the accused managed to escape the cops leaving their instruments behind.
Police also recovered multiple mobile phones and laptops which were being used for illegal betting.
Cops had recovered Rs 47 lakh as well from one of the accused’s house in Jaipur.
They had also found diaries which had accounts running into many crores of rupees.
The usual modus operandi is that the accused keep noting down all the calls for bets. Most of the bets are passed on to the person sitting at a higher level. On which they get commission.
There are a few websites on which they keep monitoring the rates of bets. The settlement is done through hawala transaction.