Rented flat, closed door and business worth Rs 1.5 lakhs every day... how 10 people were playing a 'dirty game' together in Delhi
Delhi Police Crime Branch has busted a big racket in Karol Bagh and arrested ten people. Police has also seized laptops, mobiles and cellphones from them. The mastermind is Raju Vaishnav and transactions worth about 1.5 lakh rupees were done here daily.
On Saturday, the Karol Bagh area of the country's capital Delhi was bustling like any other day. It must have been around 10:30 in the morning and shopkeepers were opening their shops in the market with a little movement. Meanwhile, the atmosphere became bustling and a police team stopped outside a flat. Before people could understand anything, the police raided the flat and arrested 10 people present inside.
Along with the arrest of these 10 people, 5 laptops, 5 notepads, 14 cellphones, 6 pens, a television and 10 smartphones were also seized from inside the flat. The names of the people who were arrested were Raju Vaishnav, Ajay Kumar, Yogesh Taneja, Tarun Khanna, Manish Jain, Kushal, Parvesh Kumar, Harvinder Deol, Gautam Das and Jagrat Sahni.
Actually, these 10 people together were running the illegal cricket betting business from this rented flat. Delhi Police got information about this betting racket from its informers, after which a raid was conducted here. According to the police, the mastermind of this entire racket is Raju Vaishnav. Jagrat Sahni used to create sub-IDs of people betting on betting websites through his master ID card.
Betting in Big Bash League
When the police arrested these 10 people, they were betting on the seventh T20 match being played between Hobart Hurricanes and Perth Scorchers under Australia's Big Bash League (BBL). The match had started at 10:30 in the morning and during that time the police team reached the spot and arrested them.
Commission was fixed on online betting
Among these, Jagrat Sahni has a master ID card of a betting website. Through this ID card, he used to create sub-IDs and sell these IDs to bookmakers for betting on live matches. Jagrat had also fixed commission from all of them. His share was distributed among the bookmakers in the ratio of 5 percent in case of profit and 95 percent in case of loss.
Bets were also placed offline
Apart from online, this racket also made people place bets offline. For this, the bookies used to make phone calls and place bets according to the odds given on live matches and these bets were recorded in a notebook. According to the police, this gang of 10 people was running this betting racket for the last one year.
Transactions worth Rs 1.5 lakh per day
You might be surprised to know, but every day transactions worth about 1.5 lakh rupees were done from this rented flat. There was a profit or loss of 30 to 40 thousand rupees in this. The mastermind of the racket, Raju Vaishnav, is a goldsmith by profession. The rest of the accused are from different cities of Delhi, UP and Rajasthan. The police is now investigating how many people were connected to this network.
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