Indian Police Bust Illegal Cricket Betting Racket (10 Apr 1996)
BOMBAY - Police in Bombay, India`s financial centre, raided a luxury apartment in the city on Sunday and caught those arrested red-handed accepting bets on the Singer Cup final between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at Singapore, PTI said
10-Apr-1996
10 April 1996
Indian police bust illegal cricket betting racket
BOMBAY - Police in Bombay, India`s financial centre, raided a
luxury apartment in the city on Sunday and caught those arrested
red-handed accepting bets on the Singer Cup final between Sri
Lanka and Pakistan at Singapore, PTI said.
The news agency quoted a senior police official as saying they
seized two million rupees ($58,000) linked to the match which was
won by Pakistan.
Betting on cricket is banned in India and Pakistan, but media reports during the World Cup held in the two countries and Sri Lanka spoke of millions of rupees exchanging hands.
Police seized a personal computer, a television set, ten telephones, sound amplifiers, tape recorders and calculators used by
those arrested, PTI said.
Betting commitments were recorded in cassettes seized by police,
it said.
Police tracked for days the racket carried out in coded conversations in which those involved were not identifying themselves
openly, it said.
Source :: Daily News (https://www.lanka.net)