THE JHARKHAND STORY DESK
Kolkata, Nov 6: For allegedly operating a cricket betting racket during the ongoing ICC men’s cricket World Cup 2023, Kolkata police arrested five people from various locations.
On the basis of reliable source information, the Kolkata Police’s Anti-Rowdy Squad (ARS) made the arrests.
Police said that Abhisekh Jaiswal, Arun Agarwal, Pradip Barma, Keshab Prasad Mundra, and Kalu Shaw were among those arrested for placing bets on cricket matches through a variety of betting applications.
As a result, cases have been filed in the respective police stations under Section 120B/420 of the IPC and the West Bengal Gambling and Prize Competition Act.
Mahdev Book and Reddyannaprestopro are among the 22 “illegal betting apps and websites” that have blocking orders against them from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
Following the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) probe into an illegal betting app syndicate and subsequent raids on Mahadev Book in Chhattisgarh that exposed the app’s illicit operations, the IT ministry stated that the action had been taken.
