Digital Goa, April 9 – In a major raid on online betting, Goa Crime Branch today arrested 34 accused and seized over Rs 40 lakh worth material used in commiting crime. The raid was conducted on the illegal IPL gambling racket run at Nagoa in Salcete and also at Curca in Tiswadi. Accused hatched a criminal conspiracy by cheating members of public by means of communication like computers, laptops, mobile phones and other gaming articles to the tune of approximately Rs. 40 lakhs in both the cases. In the first case, 18 mobile phones, 5 laptops, 3 Indian Passports, 11 Bank passbooks, 54 SIM cards, 8 cheque books and 363ATM cards of different banks were seized while 84 passbooks, 27 cheque books, 83 mobile phones, 6 laptops, 12 desktops, 6 CPU, 3 routers and 109 ATM cards of different banks were seized in the second case. In total Goa Police has registered 6 cases of IPL bettering this season – 02 by North district and 04 by Crime Branch with total 44 arrests with approximately Rs 45 Lakh worth article seizures.
