Two persons arrested for running betting racket

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.

———-PTI