New Delhi, February 20: With the arrest of eight alleged bookies, Delhi Police today claimed to have smashed three betting syndicates which were operating during the World Cup cricket match between India and Bangladesh collecting a total of Rs 2.78 crore as bets from punters.
Acting on specific information, police raided a hotel in Karol Bagh area in central Delhi, a flat in Rohini and a house at Pitam Pura in north Delhi and arrested eight people. They recovered four laptops, 30 mobile phones, four TVs, two calculators, three data cards and notebooks from them.
Gaurav Sharma (32), Shanku Arora (29), Goldy Verma (28) and Pankaj Saluja (33) were arrested from the hotel in Karol Bagh, while Devener Rana (32) and Tarun Bhatia (24) were held from Rohini and Anil Kumar Gupta (43) and Navin Kumar Gupta (41) were arrested from Pitam Pura, police said.
—-PTI