Indore: Morena Men Arrested For IPL Betting In Hotel Raid

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A team of police raided a hotel and caught three men from Morena while they were operating an online cricket match betting there in the Lasudia area, police said on Tuesday. It is said that they reached the city and they had booked a hotel room to bet on a cricket match. Seven mobile phones, SIM cards etc were recovered from them and further investigation is on.  

ACP (Vijay Nagar) Krishan Lalchandani had received information that some men were betting for an IPL cricket match by providing IDs to the customer from hotel Shiv Om in the Scheme Number 94. The police team raided room number 203 where there men were betting for a match. The accused named Arvind Gupta, Akash Rathore and Shivam Gupta, the residents of Morena district were caught from there.  The accused allegedly informed the police that they used to get access from a website and were creating IDs of the customer on the internet to allow them to bet for the IPL match. The accused were booked under the relevant sections of the Gambling Act at the Lasudia police station and they are being questioned further.