{"id":25220,"date":"2021-12-06T09:24:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T12:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=25220"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:13:22","slug":"india-police-bust-illegal-gambling-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-police-bust-illegal-gambling-ring","title":{"rendered":"India: police bust illegal gambling ring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities in the city of Chilavannoor, Kochi, have arrested one man after a raid on an illegal gambling ring that was operating in a flat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Officers in India have busted an illegal gambling operation at a flat in Chilavannoor, in the state of Kerala. The alleged <strong>leader was arrested during the raid<\/strong>. Police also seized several plastic coins with different denominations and playing cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to New Indian Express, police detected the illegal gambling centre while they were investigating a case linked to narcotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks ago, Focus Gaming News reported\u00a0that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-2-arrested-over-illegal-cricket-betting\">police had made two arrests<\/a>\u00a0after busting an<strong>\u00a0illegal cricket betting racket\u00a0<\/strong>that was taking bets through a website. According to the Deccan Herald, the\u00a0<strong>police seized cash debit cards, mobile phones\u00a0<\/strong>and cheque books from various banks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the men arrested had previously been accused of involvement in two gambling cases in 2019. He was under police watch in Hyderabad but moved to Warangal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/delhi-police-officer-in-illegal-cricket-betting-operation\">a New Delhi police<\/a>\u00a0officer was dismissed<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for being<strong>\u00a0involved in an organised illegal cricket betting operation<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Amit Kumar<\/strong>\u00a0was also accused of being associated with criminals and rioters and of\u00a0<strong>organising illegal gambling events.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the city of Chilavannoor, Kochi, have arrested one man after a raid on an illegal gambling ring that was operating in a flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25240,"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 conducted multiple raids on illegal gambling operations across various cities, leading to several arrests and seizures of illicit gambling paraphernalia. These enforcement actions highlight persistent challenges in combating unregulated gaming activities, including instances of organized crime and official complicity, which pose significant risks to market integrity and legitimate revenue streams.","focusai_entities":"Amit Kumar, New Indian Express, Focus Gaming News, Deccan Herald, Police","focusai_location":"Chilavannoor, Kochi, Kerala, India, Hyderabad, Warangal, New Delhi","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India's Regulatory Outlook","query":"What are the long-term implications of these persistent illegal gambling operations and associated corruption for the potential future regulation and licensing frameworks within India's gaming verticals?"},{"label":"Impact on Legitimate GGR","query":"How do these widespread unregulated gambling activities in India quantify in terms of estimated GGR leakage from potential legitimate operators, and what are the strategies to mitigate this?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-25220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25220","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=25220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25224,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25220\/revisions\/25224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}