PUNE: The Sahakarnagar police have arrested a man on the charge of accepting online bets on an Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals on Tuesday evening.
The suspect was identified as Rahul Subhas Pande (48) of Ghorpade Peth. Police raided a flat in Dhankawadi and recovered Rs52,000 cash, besides seizing three cellphones, and a tablet from his possession. A case of cheating and forgery under the provisions of the Gambling Act was registered against him.
A team headed by deputy commissioner of police (Zone II) Sagar Patil and senior police inspector Swati Desai of the Sahakarnagar police station raided the flat after receiving a tip-off.
Desai said Pande runs an online lottery shop at Ghorpade Peth and was also accepting bets from many people on IPL matches. “People were making calls to him and he was noting down names and money against their name along with name of the team in a register. We have seized the register,” she said.
The city police in simultaneous raids on two flats in Rasta Peth and Market Yard, arrested two men on the charge of accepting bets on IPL matches on Sunday. Police said the suspects had also accepted bets on IPL matches during the first half of the ongoing season, which was held in India earlier this year.
Police had recovered a large number of slips (betting receipts) from phones they seized. Phone numbers and amount of money was written on the slips along with the cricket team.
