Indian Police Bust Illegal Cricket Betting Racket (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)