IPL betting racket: Cops chase ex-bar dancer

Mumbai | Thursday | 24th May, 2018

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MUMBAI: The Thane police are probing the alleged involvement of a former bar dancer in an online racket involving bets on IPL matches. The bar dancer, whom the police identified only as Kajal, used to work at a beer bar in Malad, the police said. In 2005, a crorepati bar dancer, Tarannum Khan, was arrested in a cricket betting scam. The police seized two laptops, Rs 1.60 lakh, three cellphones and a diary containing contacts of punters.The police said that the accused had hired the flat to run the betting racket. An officer said her involvement in betting mirrors how bar dancers, now jobless, have taken to diverse activities for unemployment..