AHMEDABAD: A team of state monitoring cell of Gujarat police on Saturday raided a gambling den in the Devjipura locality behind city police commissioner’s office in Shahibaug and held 11 gamblers. Three succeeded to flee from there.
According to an FIR filed with Madhavpura police, the state monitoring cell got an input that some people have been running a gambling den in an open ground in Devjipura. The police team organized a raid and rushed to spot on Saturday afternoon.
Police found some people sitting in a circle. The cops tried to cordon them, but three men fled from the spot by jumping over a wall, said the FIR.
The FIR mentioned that they managed to catch others.
One of the accused told cops that the gambling den was being run there for around six months by a man named Dawood Miyana, a resident of Devjipura.
Cops have booked 11 persons under the gambling act besides charges of negligence causing spread of infectious diseases along with the epidemic act as they did not maintain social distance.