Cricket betting racket busted, 4 held

Gurgaon: Police claim to have busted a major online cricket betting racket operating in the city with the arrest of 4 bookies on Sunday. Forty mobile phones, five laptops, two Samsung tablets were recovered from their possession, police said.
According to the police, the four were involved in the online betting of the Australia and South Africa T20 cricket match which took place on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off about betting for the ongoing T20 cricket matches from a house in DLF-1, the CIA team raided the premises and arrested the four.
They have been identified as Satpal, Neeraj — residents of Aligarh — Pradeep, a resident of Dilshad Garden and Lakshman, a resident of Anand Vihar.
Explaining the modus operandi, police said that there are four layers in cricket betting, which includes the main bookie, who was Lakshman in this case, followed by a sub-bookie, one more bookie and a punter.
The police claimed that the gang had been running this online betting for the last 6-7 years. Police are investigating if more people are involved.