PRESS NOTE.... RAID ON CRICKET BETTING – 03 HELD,

PRESS NOTE

RAID ON CRICKET BETTING – 03 HELD,

  SEIZED NET CASH OF RS.74,000/-

    On 07-04-2017, the sleuths of Commissioner’s Task Force, East Zone Team, Hyderabad, busted a cricket betting racket and apprehended 03-persons namely viz., 1) Sonu Agarwal, 2) Singhal Vaibhav Agarwal and 3) Sandeep Singh at Anupama Lodge, Malakpet, Hyderabad, and seized net cash of Rs.74,000/-, 01-Laptop and 03-Cell phones, from their possession.

 

NAME & ADDRESS OF THE ACCUSED	:	1) Sonu Agarwal, age 29 yrs, Occ: Business, R/o. Saroornagar, R.R. Dist 2) Singhal Vaibhav Agarwal, age 26 yrs, Occ: Un-employee, R/o Saroornagar, R.R. Dist. 3) Sandeep Singh, age 29 yrs, occ: Pvt Employee, R/o. Lower Dhoolpet, Mangalhat, Hyderabad.
DETAILS SEIZED PROPERTY	:	Net cash of Rs.74,000/- One Laptop 03-Cell Phones

Modus Operandi:

On 07.04.2017, on a tip off East Zone Task force Team conducted a raid on M/s Anupama Lodge, Malakpet, Hyderabad, and apprehended the accused, who were accepting cricket betting in an organized manner and collecting amounts for their personal gains, for ongoing match in between Gujrat Lions Vs Kolkata Knight Riders at Rajkot, India.

The accused Sonu Agarwal, Vaibhav Agarwal both are brothers R/o Saroornagar, and their friend  Sandeep Singh belongs to Dhoolpet, Hyderabad, hatched a plan to earn easy money by accepting cricket betting in an organized manner in Hyderabad city during ongoing IPL -2017 Cricket matches. For this they have set up a laptop in the lodge, from there the accused persons have been taking online betting using cell phones etc, The accused persons have some permanent customers/ punters and during cricket matches the customers/punters contact the accused and bet the amount based on the betting ratio sent by the accused through what's App to the customers. Usually this betting ratio figure send by one Mukesh to the accused through What's App application in turn the accused send the betting ration to the punters. For providing update betting rates they use to pay Rs.1,000 to Rs.2,000/- per match to Mukesh. After receiving cricket betting rates from Mukesh the same was forwarded to their known punters through phone and accepting betting directly and indirectly and collecting amounts from punters and they use to entry of betting amount details in their laptop.

The apprehended accused along with seized property were handed over to S.H.O Malakpet PS, for taking further action.

    The above arrest was made under the supervision of SRI N. KOTI REDDY, Addl. Dy. Commissioner of Police, Commissioner’s Task Force, Hyderabad, by Sri S.Mohan Kumar, Inspector of Police, Commissioner’s Task Force, East Zone Team, Hyderabad and S.Is Sri A.Sudhakar, K.Srinivas and S.Saidababu along with the staff of the Commissioner’s Task Force, East Zone Team, Hyderabad City.

   Addl. Dy. Commissionerof Police, Commissioner’s Task Force,

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