HYDERABAD: With barely hours left to go for the crucial World T20 semi-final between India and West Indies, sleuths of Cyberabad police apprehended 12 persons including main bookies, collection agents, punters and line organisers on Thursday. Another 29 persons are absconding.
Special Operations Team, Malkajgiri zone conducted the raids under Medipally, Kushaiguda and Vanasthalipuram police stations limits. The organisers were found to be operating from residential houses in different localities with the help of main lines, which operate from Bengaluru, Amalapuram and Visakapatnam in view of the match between India and West Indies. Police seized Rs.9.28 lakh cash, a laptop, 26 mobile phones and two cash counting machines.
Five persons were arrested and eight are absconding from Medipally limits while four were arrested and 12 are absconding from Vanastalipuram limits, and three were arrested and four are absconding from Kushaiguda limits.
The main accused Ch Praveen Kumar, 38, a resident of Saidabad Colony has been organising cricket betting with one Chetan Kumar of Neredmet for the last five years. He used to collect Rs.20 to 25 lakh from punters for a match through collection agent Sampath and local line organiser Pandu in the limits of Kushaiguda, Uppal, Medipally, Ghatkesar and Malkajgiri areas. Meanwhile, the main line was being set up by organisers in HSR Layout in Bengaluru with a 25 phone-line setup.
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