{"id":23250,"date":"2021-10-04T13:26:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=23250"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:05:03","slug":"india-16-arrested-for-illegal-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-16-arrested-for-illegal-gambling","title":{"rendered":"India: 16 arrested for illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police have raided a farmhouse where an illegal casino was operating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India.- Authorities have\u00a0<strong>arrested 16 people<\/strong>\u00a0during a raid on an illegal casino in outer Delhi&#8217;s Alipur area. According to officers,<strong>\u00a0a man called Harvinder Solanki had been running an illegal casino inside a farmhouse for the last two years<\/strong>. He is accused of being involved in illegal gambling operations in different areas of Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the raid, police seized money, plastic coins, poker tokens and gambling chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/delhi-police-officer-in-illegal-cricket-betting-operation\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Delhi\u2019s police<\/a>&nbsp;force dismissed<strong>&nbsp;an officer&nbsp;<\/strong>for being<strong>&nbsp;involved in an organised illegal cricket betting operation<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>Amit Kumar<\/strong>&nbsp;was also accused of being associated with criminals and rioters and of&nbsp;<strong>organising illegal gambling events.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to The Indian Express, Kumar was discovered during&nbsp;<strong>a fight between two men who were involved in betting operations<\/strong>. One of them was Amit Raghav who was part of a betting racket and was close to Amit Kumar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers discovered that both&nbsp;<strong>Raghav and Kumar carried out illegal gambling rackets and collected money from gamblers<\/strong>. Police also suspect Kumar was involved with bar owners who were breaching Covid-19 countermeasures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An officer stated: \u201cWe found that Kumar was actively in touch with all the bar owners and managers in the area. During questioning, he admitted he called them regularly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have raided a farmhouse where an illegal casino was operating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Indian authorities have dismantled an illegal casino operation in Delhi, arresting 16 individuals and seizing gambling paraphernalia. This follows a recent dismissal of a police officer for involvement in an illegal cricket betting racket, highlighting ongoing challenges in combating illicit gambling activities and maintaining regulatory integrity within the region.","focusai_entities":"Harvinder Solanki, Amit Kumar, Amit Raghav, Delhi Police, The Indian Express","focusai_location":"India, Delhi, New Delhi, Alipur","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.85), investor_analyst (0.8), gambler_consumer (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Impact","query":"What are the broader implications of these enforcement actions on the legitimate iGaming market's growth trajectory and investor confidence in India, particularly concerning B2C licensing and operational integrity?"},{"label":"Illicit Market Scale","query":"How do these specific raids and arrests reflect the estimated scale and sophistication of the illegal gambling market in India, and what challenges do they pose for establishing robust regulatory compliance frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-23250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23250","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=23250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23258,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23250\/revisions\/23258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}