Gujarat cricket gambling racket: Key accused sent to judicial custody
Dipakkumar Thakkar, who had fled to Dubai, was arrested and extradited from the UAE following a Red Corner Notice (RCN) issued by the Interpol.
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The Ministry of Home Affairs sent an Extradition Proposal for Dipakkumar Thakkar to the UAE government on June 25.The Ahmedabad Rural court remanded Dipakkumar Thakkar, the key accused in an alleged illegal cricket gambling racket and dabba trading, to judicial custody Friday.
Thakkar, who had fled to Dubai, was arrested and extradited from the UAE following a Red Corner Notice (RCN) issued by the Interpol.
He is one of the 36 people arrested in a March 2023 case, filed before Ahmedabad’s Madhupura police station, in which he is accused of being the ‘kingpin’ of an international illegal gambling racket, illegal stock market (dabba) trading, and undertaking hawala transactions to the tune of Rs 2,273 crore.
After his arrest in Gandhinagar on September 1 following his extradition, the Principal Sessions Judge of the Ahmedabad Rural court had sent him to four-day police custody till September 6. On Friday, Thakkar was remanded in judicial custody.
Notably, the State Monitoring Cell of the police had written to registrars in Banaskantha and Ahmedabad asking for the valuation of his allegedly unaccountable (benami) properties, including large tracts of farmland, residences, housing plots, commercial shops, a CNG gas pump, multiple cars, offices and bank lockers in the two districts and Dubai.
An officer said the police have sought the dates of acquisition of the properties to check which of them had been acquired using proceeds of crime. Following this, the police will reportedly write to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to attach these properties.
Thakkar is facing charges under sections of the Prevention of Gambling Act, the IT Act, and the Securities Contract Regulation Act.
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