Major Gambling Den Sting Carried Out In India

In the US, authorities spend months investigating an illegal gambling operation, and then, after using thousands of taxpayers dollars, they raid the illegal gambling establishments and arrest nobody. This is not how the police do it in India.

Police in Sabarmati, Ramol, and Naroda traveled around the city picking off one illegal gambling den after another. At the end of the day Wednesday, a total of twenty-seven people were arrested and charged with gambling related crimes.

Lakshman Solanki was running one of the gambling dens, and apparently was tipped off that police were going to raid his establishment. When police went to the location, they found the gambling den had been moved to Rupal Apartment.

"When we reached the house in Rupal Apartment, we found the owner of the house Jeetendra Patel and six others with nine mobile phones and 42,000 cash," said a Sabarmati police official, as reported in The Times of India, "though three managed to flee the spot, we are hunting for them."

In a couple of different raids the police found a similar situation, many mobile phones and large amounts of cash. Over 100,000 in cash was seized in all of the raids. Sanjay Patel was the owner of Manish Complex, was arrested and charged with aiding and abetting illegal activities at one of the raids.

July 31, 2009
Posted By April Gardner
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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