IPL online betting racket busted, 10 arrested

At the time when the police team raided the apartment, the suspects were receiving bets on IPL matches on phone-based betting applications. Police arrested the 10 suspects and seized 16 cell phones and two laptops from them.

“Probe suggests that these suspects had been receiving online bets and money for at least six different betting websites. All the arrested suspects are from Chhattisgarh and we have reasons to believe that their operations were on the radar of the state police in Chhattisgarh and to evade that, they flew to Pune to operate. We have launched a probe into their criminal history,” an officer from the crime branch said.

The arrested suspects have been identified as Mukesh Sahu (24), Devendra Yadav (21), Jaswant Sahu (30), Rahul Yadav (22), Rohit Yadav (26), Dushyant Sonkar (24), Sandeep Meshram (21), Akhileshwar Thakur (24), Mohammed Saudagar (32) and Amit Shendge (32).

In the past, the probes by Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad police have revealed that many bookies and racketeers from Delhi, Bihar, Punjab and Chhattisgarh involved in IPL betting had flown to Pune to operate from these states but were busted.