{"id":16368,"date":"2021-03-30T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=16368"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:45:19","slug":"delhi-14-arrested-at-illegal-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/delhi-14-arrested-at-illegal-casino","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: 14 arrested at illegal casino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The illegal casino was functioning out of the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mahipalpur, in southwest Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Police have <strong>arrested fourteen people in New Delhi <\/strong>in relation to an alleged illegal casino that was functioning out of the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mahipalpur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <strong>Deputy <strong>Police<\/strong><\/strong> <strong>Commissioner Ingit Pratap Singh<\/strong>, police received information that <strong>gambling halls <\/strong>had been moved to hotels and farmhouses in and around Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He  said: &#8220;During the raid, <strong>14 people, including five women, were found gambling <\/strong>using the chips and coins in the room on special tables. They were taken into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said <strong>chips were being used as transaction currency <\/strong>during card play with the actual cash payment made the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All the men arrested wre from Delhi-NCR <\/strong>while<strong> four women from Nepal <\/strong>were arrested and <strong>one from Punjab<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police also <strong>seized Rs 1.1 lakh in cash<\/strong>, 30 sets of cards and 6,100 chips worth Rs 30.5 lakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delhi police have reported that <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/delhi-police-arrested-6291-for-illegal-gambling-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\">6,291 people were arrested in 2,414 cases related to gambling in the Indian capital last year<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The illegal casino was functioning out of the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mahipalpur, in southwest Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Authorities in New Delhi, India, have dismantled an illicit gambling operation functioning within a Radisson Blu Hotel, leading to fourteen arrests and the seizure of significant cash and gaming instruments. This incident underscores the persistent challenge of illegal gambling activities migrating to hospitality venues, highlighting critical regulatory enforcement gaps and the broader implications for market integrity and public trust in jurisdictions with evolving or restrictive gaming frameworks.","focusai_entities":"Radisson Blu Hotel, Ingit Pratap Singh, Delhi Police","focusai_location":"India, New Delhi, Mahipalpur, Delhi-NCR, Nepal, Punjab","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Hotel Due Diligence","query":"What governance frameworks and due diligence protocols are expected of hospitality groups like Radisson Blu to prevent their premises from being exploited for illicit gambling operations, particularly in jurisdictions with ambiguous gaming laws?"},{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Efficacy","query":"Given the reported 6,291 arrests in Delhi last year, what specific enhancements to regulatory compliance and enforcement strategies are being considered to more effectively deter and dismantle illegal gambling networks operating within the region?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-16368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16368"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16391,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16368\/revisions\/16391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}