Three people have been arrested in Guntur on charges of organizing illegal cricket bettings for the Indian Premier League cricket match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
India.- Police in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, have arrested three persons over illegally cricket betting<\/strong> and seized INR1.26m (US$17,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police also found notebooks, six mobile phones and two four-wheeler vehicles. According to local media, one of the suspects works in a real estate business<\/strong>, while the other is an auditor at a local firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the last India-England cricket match<\/strong> in March, police arrested 33 people<\/strong> on the same charges of illegal cricket betting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cricket is the most popular sport in India <\/strong>and is played almost everywhere. Illegal cricket betting <\/strong>has risen and in recent weeks there have been other raids in Pune with three people arrested<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the Public Gambling Act of 1867<\/strong>, betting is illegal in India. As regards online gambling<\/strong>, some states like such as Kerala<\/a> and Tamil Nadu<\/a> have made online gaming a punishable offence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three people have been arrested in Guntur on charges of organizing illegal cricket bettings for the Indian Premier League cricket match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Police in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, have arrested three individuals for organizing illegal cricket betting during the Indian Premier League, seizing INR1.26m and related equipment. This incident follows 33 arrests in March for similar offenses, underscoring persistent regulatory enforcement challenges against illicit gambling activities in India, where the Public Gambling Act of 1867 prohibits betting and some states have banned online gaming.","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Pune","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Regulation?","query":"How do these repeated enforcement actions against illegal cricket betting influence the trajectory and potential scope of future iGaming regulatory frameworks in India, particularly concerning sports betting?"},{"label":"Market Size Implications?","query":"What are the estimated GGR implications of such widespread illegal betting operations for a potential regulated Indian iGaming market, and how might this impact B2C operator strategies?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[229,23911,23935],"class_list":["post-17210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-sportsbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210","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=17210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17211,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210\/revisions\/17211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}