A high-stakes online cricket betting empire crumbled in Bhilwara following a precision police strike. Six men were taken into custody from a Nehru Vihar hideout in Bhimganj jurisdiction, where they orchestrated wagers via digital means. Confiscated gadgets numbered 49 mobiles, 3 laptops, 2 tabs, alongside betting tools and transaction logs hinting at crores in turnover.
According to DSP Dharmendra Singh Yadav, the January 29 swoop targeted a house rigged as a tri-room operations base. Tables groaned under tech gear—powered mobiles streaming match updates, laptops crunching odds for the Australia-Pakistan series. Operators were mid-transaction, feeding bet details to clients remotely when police intervened, foiling escape bids with a perimeter lockdown.
Questioning exposed the syndicate’s modus operandi: abusing telecom networks with proxy SIMs to hook bettors, engineering one-sided gains at others’ expense. This structured racket underscored deeper criminal linkages.
Detainees are Govind Tejwani (Subhash Nagar), Chandan (Jagdish Fatnani), Tarun (Naresh Karnani), Mulchand (Govindram), Arif Ansari (Mohammad Aslam), and Kamlesh (Dharmraj Kalwani, Nathdwara). The Bhimganj station probes extend to accomplices and e-transfers.
Parallelly, Jhalawar police demolished drug peddlers’ illegal buildup on grazing land in Amaliya Kheda post a MD factory raid netting 2kg finished drugs (Rs 5cr value) and 130kg chemicals. Suspect Gopal Singh evades capture; three wanted men offered Rs 25k rewards, as per SP Amit Kumar.