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Cricket betting racket busted in Hyderabad
The city police on Sunday claimed to have busted an inter state betting racket with the arrest of five persons for allegedly accepting bets on the fifth and final One_Day International between India and Australia.
Hyderabad: The city police on Sunday claimed to have busted an inter-state betting racket with the arrest of five persons for allegedly accepting bets on the fifth and final One-Day International between India and Australia.
Acting on a tip-off, the Commissioner's Task Force (East Zone) Team on Saturday conducted simultaneous raids at three different places in Sultan Bazar area here and busted the racket. The police arrested M Santosh along with his associates on the charges of betting and were illegally earning money, a release from Hyderabad Police said.
The fifth ODI was played at the Sydney cricket ground yesterday where India outplayed Australia by six wickets, but lost the five-match series 4-1. Police also seized 14 cell phones and Rs 1.25 lakh cash from them.
The accused were identified M Santosh, M Vinod, Shyam Sunder K, Arun Sharma and Ashish Agarwal. Santosh was running the racket from his house and accepted betting over cell phones from punters and his close friends in an organised manner in Hyderabad during cricket matches, the police said. He received update of match betting ratio information on his phone from one Agarwal of Delhi, who is absconding.
