Police arrested five students for betting on IPL matches. 70 bottles of Chandigarh brand liquor have also been recovered from them. He used to sell it to college students. All are residents of Bihar, in which four study in Dehradun. Whereas, one studies in Bihar. A case has been registered against the accused under the Gambling and Excise Act.
SP City Sarita Dobal told that SOG was getting information that online betting is going on in a house in the Cantt area. To verify this, SOG Cantt Police raided a house located in Sadbhavna Kunj of the Panditwadi area. Saw here that the TV was playing in front and some youths were talking to each other on the phone about putting money.
Used to sell liquor to students studying in colleges
Five youths were taken into custody from here. During interrogation, they told their names as Aditya Aman, Aamir Kumar, Satyam, and Harsh Kumar, all residents of Begu Sarai, and Pranav Kumar, a resident of Dollar, Vaishali. Among them, Aditya Aman is studying MBA first year at UIT. Amir and Pranav are pursuing BSc from JBIT Sahaspur and Satyam is pursuing MSc from UIT Premnagar.
Harsh Kumar studies in Bihar only. Seven mobile phones, 14 ATM cards, and Rs 23 thousand in cash were recovered from them. When his room was searched, 70 bottles of English liquor of Haryana and Chandigarh brands were recovered from there. He used to sell this liquor to the students studying in the colleges.
Bett used to be fed from a website on Telegram
The accused used to feed through the online satta telegram messenger app. Here money was deposited from the bettors on a website Bat Bhai Nine. The rates of each over, player, ball, etc. were fixed separately. Let us tell you that in this way another speculator was caught in the city in the past. SP City told that the police are searching at other places in the city as well.
Harsh came to tell the way
A young man named Harsh, a resident of Bihar, had come to tell them all about online betting. Here he got all these IDs made and accounts opened. The diaries recovered from them have dozens of names in them. Their accounts are being probed. SP City told that the amount deposited in the accounts will be frozen. Along with this, other information is also being collected about them.
Information will be sent to colleges
SP City said that in the past, two big educational institutions had shown the way out to 11 of their students. Now the police are also writing letters to their educational institutions to take action against these students. So that, in the future, suspension action can be taken against them based on the police report.
