Hotel: casino hotel rooms in Kolkata - Taj Bengal Alipur, The Peerless Inn Esplanade, The Stadel Bidhan Nagar (Salt Lake), Baan Thai New Market. Get address, phone, reviews at AskLaila.
- The police action against the racket came following a specific tip-off to police about gambling in Park Street and Shakespeare Sarani area. Police detained many people including owner of Arsalan biryani.
- Top Kolkata (Calcutta) Casinos: See reviews and photos of casinos & gambling attractions in Kolkata (Calcutta), India on Tripadvisor.
- As far as poker is concerned, its exemption from the West Bengal Prize Competition and Gambling Act, 1957, has made conducting poker events for cash a legally sanctioned event. There are numerous poker enthusiasts in the city of Kolkata, who lauded this win as a historic one for the growth of poker in the city.
Headlines regarding betting on IPL 2020 matches and people getting arrested for these betting activities have been making rounds each week.
Police across the country have been raiding hotels, resorts, flats and arresting people for placing bets on IPL 2020 matches.
In many such instances, people have been getting caught red-handed either running entire gambling network or placing bets via bookies, online applications etc.
A lot of money in cash, mobile phones, television sets, and laptops has been getting seized in the process.
Despite these continuous crackdowns, these illegal activities do not seem to stop and continue to grow across the nation.
In line with above backdrop, in last 24 hours, police of different states namely, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Hyderabad, Kolkata and more have conducted raids at different locations and have arrested several people for betting on IPL matches.
The Indian Wire had already reported about arrests made in this connection in Goa's Candolim area on October 2, 2020.
Recently, in Hyderabad, 13 persons were arrested and approximately Rupees 22 Lakh were seized overall. 7 persons were arrested from Balanagar Zone alone. Other places of arrest included Red Hill area where people were apprehended by Hyderabad Police.
Zee Business News reported about arrests in Uttar Pradesh, Kolkata and Delhi too, where 8 people were arrested from UP. 5 belonged to Meerut city and 3 belonged to Varanasi.
Kolkata Police apprehended people from Hare Street, Park Street, Jadavpur and Salt Lake areas on basis on tip-off by an informant.
Regarding arrests made in Delhi, Atul Thakur, DCP, South Delhi stated that, 'In Rajpur Khurd village, six persons were found sitting on a lawn with a laptop in which entries on bets were maintained. In one mobile phone, a live cricket match was being telecast and on another landline phone the rates of bets were being announced'.
Blackjack club fruit machine. So far, plethora of instances has popped up where police bust betting networks and continues to do so.
Matka Gambling In Kolkata
The nine accused persons will be produced before a city court during the day. (File Photo/ICC)Nine persons have been arrested from different parts of Kolkata for allegedly betting on an Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket match, police said on Friday.
Casino In Kolkata
Acting on a tip-off, sleuths of the Kolkata Police's detective department conducted raids in Hare Street, Park Street, Jadavpur and Salt Lake areas on Thursday night and arrested nine persons, mostly in their mid-20s, for allegedly betting on the previous day's IPL cricket match, a senior officer said.
Gambling Act In Kolkata
Several documents, laptops, mobile phones, tablets and a vehicle have been seized from their possession, he said.
'The matter is being probed and we are trying to find out whether the accused persons are involved in any inter-state betting racket,' the officer said.
The nine accused persons will be produced before a city court during the day, he added.
📣 The Indian Express is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@indianexpress) and stay updated with the latest headlines
For all the latest Kolkata News, download Indian Express App.
