Indore Police on Thursday, claimed to have undercovered a betting racket of crores of rupees on the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches. The police officials stated that they had arrested 8 individuals in this case.
The arrests in the case were done based on a tip-off, on Wednesday night from a flat in a multi-storey building in the Lasudia area here in Madhya Pradesh when they were making people place bets online on the IPL matches through a website, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Rajesh Dandotia stated.
The accused had obtained mobile phone SIM cards with fake names and used them to take betting amounts from people through QR codes, the official said.
"During interrogation of the accused, it was found that their online betting network was spread across Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra," he said.
The police seized 22 mobile phones, 17 chequebooks, 5 laptops, 21 bank passbooks, and 31 ATM cards along with registers containing accounts of crores of rupees of online betting from their possession, he said.
A detailed investigation is underway into the case.
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