Gambling racket operating across North India busted, 5 held

Five people involved in a gambling racket, allegedly spread across North India, have been arrested, police said on Monday.

Kulwinder Singh (50), Inderpal (43), Pradeep Chopra (39) and Sandeep Shegal (41), were arrested on Saturday from a West Delhi house which was being used by the accused as their work station for operating the racket, police said. 

Rajeev Anand (39), another accused was later picked up from Punjab on the information supplied by those arrested. 

Police said that Singh and Anand were the heads of the racket which was being operated across North India including Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and some parts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.

“Three laptops with gambling softwares, 11 mobile phones with SIM cards and other incriminating materials along with cash amount of Rs 90 lakh (stake money) were recovered from the West Delhi house,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Sanjeev Yadav said.

The officer said that Anand is involved in organised gambling for over 20 years and was previously involved in 12 cases of gambling and cheating in Punjab. 

The officer said customers placed stake on particular numbers with the agents who charged 10 per cent from them and sent these numbers to bigger agents popularly called Khaiwal. 

“These Khaiwals further sent these numbers through email to the main gambling operators known as Company. All this data is fed into software in a laptop, which provides details of profits on each number. It helps the administrator choose a number which provides maximum benefit to Company and least to the customers.