cricket betting racket busted in hyderabadMan Linked To Illegal Immigration Racket Arrested In Gujarat
Gujarat Police has busted an illegal immigration racket. While taking action in this matter, the Gujarat Police has also arrested a person. The arrested person was helping people from the state to enter the US illegally. Not only this, the police have also recovered 94 fake passports from him.
The police has also issued a statement regarding this action. Police said that a team of Gujarat Police’s State Vigilance Cell took this action to curb gambling and liquor business. The team on Tuesday arrested a person identified as Bharat alias Bobby Patel from Bhadaj in Ahmedabad city.
Police further informed that Bharat alias Bobby Patel is involved in illegal human trafficking. Not only this, cases are also registered against him in Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi. A case was registered against him in Ahmedabad city for preparing fake passports. The police also informed that during the operation police raided his offices and house. During this, 94 fake passports and two laptops were recovered.
According to a police statement, a family of four from Dingucha village in Gandhinagar district is also being probed for their suspected role in a human trafficking case. The entire family froze to death in January this year while trying to illegally cross into the United States from Canada.
cricket betting racket busted in hyderabadTwo big cricket betting rackets busted in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Hyderabad police raided betting dens in Punjagutta and Mangalhat as the IPL tournament’s final match was being played on Sunday night and busted two big cricket betting rackets.
The police recovered cricket betting racket busted in hyderabadTwo big cricket betting rackets busted in Hyderabad around Rs 20 lakh from the gangs. The two gangs used over 100 phones and SIM cards to contact punters from various parts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This is the 17th racket busted by the Hyderabad and Cyberabad police in this IPL season. Police said the first gang was active at Shreya Mansion in Somajiguda.
The organisers, Soma Raju and Vinod Kumar, hail from Bhimavaram and Nidadavolu in West Godavari, and had been organising betting rackets after the IPL matches began. The gang was using modern gadgets to make group calls with punters and to record their conversations.
“We got 76 old cellphones which were connected to line boxes and voice recorders. All phones were in auto answering mode. The calls of punters are controlled by the volume control in the line box. In that way they could talk to several punters at once and accept bets from them,” said commissioner’s task force additional DCP N. Koti Reddy.
After the raid, police seized the equipment and Rs 8.02 lakh. The gang had purchased around 100 Reliance SIM cards with the help of locals from Bhimavaram, Rajahmundry and Tanuku in West Godavari by providing fake names and address proofs.
The second gang was found active at New Agapura in Mangalhat. Rajesh Agarwal, 38, a trader from Goshamahal in Hyderabad and his friend Pavan Gupta, 32, from Hussainialam decided to start a cricket betting racket after they suffered huge business losses.
The police raided their den and seized Rs 12 lakh and mobile phones used for contacting punters who make bets. Police found the two organisers had created a detailed log of all the punters who had placed bets, their individual bets, the amounts involved and other details regarding them using excel sheet software in laptops.
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