Maharashtra: Two cricket bookies arrested for placing bets on IPL matches
The neighborhood wrongdoing part of the region police attacked a clinical store in Dahanu on Tuesday night and found a money manager, Jinesh Punamiya, supposedly putting down wagers utilizing a versatile application on the result of the match between the Mumbai Indians and the Rajasthan Royals.
Two men were captured in Palghar's Dahanu town for supposedly putting down wagers on matches of the progressing Indian Premier League (IPL), police said Wednesday.
The local crime branch of the district police raided a medical store in Dahanu on Tuesday night and found a businessman, Jinesh Punamiya, allegedly placing bets using a mobile application on the outcome of the match between the Mumbai Indians and the Rajasthan Royals.
Punamiya, a wrongdoing branch official stated, had put down Rs 60,000 in wagers since the competition started a month ago. An investigation of the financial specialist's telephone additionally uncovered that he had an equalization of Rs 1.12 lakh connected to the application.
The wrongdoing branch captured a neighborhood inhabitant, Irfan Shaikh, who had sent a connection of the application to Punamiya and disclosed to him how to utilize it, said the authority. The team was reserved under the Maharashtra Prevention of Gambling Act.