Overview
- Goa Police’s Crime Branch arrested 10 people at two villas in Ribandar and Kadamba Plateau and said the group managed bets through Reddi888 and Fairplay while officers seized 95 phones, 8 laptops, dozens of SIM cards and cash.
- In a separate North Goa raid, Cyber Crime officers detained six suspects who allegedly took bets using the MG Lion and Kabook 1 apps and they reported seizing six laptops, about 50 ATM cards, mule-account kits and phones worth roughly Rs 10 lakh.
- Police in Latur, Maharashtra, earlier picked up four men accused of running bets from a moving car and they reported confiscating a vehicle, mobile phones, a laptop, betting records and cash worth about Rs 13.73 lakh.
- Haryana’s Nuh district police said they arrested six suspected bookies during a Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Lucknow Super Giants match and recovered nine phones, Rs 13,350 in cash, an LED TV and registers they described as customer ledgers.
- Cases have been registered under public gambling laws, the Information Technology Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and investigators say they are now tracing financial flows and fake IDs to map the wider betting network and freeze linked accounts.