Indore, February 28: Two persons were yesterday arrested on the charge of accepting bets worth Rs 80 lakh during the India versus England match of the cricket World Cup, police said.
On a tip off, police raided a house in Ramchandra Nagar and caught Ashish Maheshwari and Kamal Maheshwari accepting the bets red-handed, they said.
The duo hail from Ratlam and were running the betting racket from a rented house here, police said.
Betting chits worth 80 lakh, a LCD TV and 8 cell phones were recovered from them, they said.
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