{"id":29304,"date":"2022-04-26T11:24:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=29304"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:16:19","slug":"indian-police-officer-accused-of-taking-cut-from-illegal-gambling-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indian-police-officer-accused-of-taking-cut-from-illegal-gambling-operator","title":{"rendered":"Indian police officer accused of taking cut from illegal gambling operator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A woman police officer is accused of taking a cut of proceeds from an illegal casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- A police officer has been arrested on suspicion of <strong>requesting and accepting bribes<\/strong> from a man\u00a0who was running a casino. She is accused of having received a monthly cut of the casino&#8217;s takings and of forcing the man to continue operating the casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspector <strong>Munni Parihar<\/strong> from Karnad Police Station in Agar Malwa\u00a0district was arrested after Ritesh Rathore complained that she had forced him to continue operating the venue to give her a monthly commission of Rs20,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to The Times of India, Rathore claims<strong>\u00a0he started running a casino in 2021\u00a0<\/strong>after his food business suffered during the Covid-19 pandemic. Parihar would charge him Rs20,000 a month to allow the venue to keep going. But she then forced him to continue running the operation to pay her the bridge when he wanted out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said: &#8220;She had demanded Rs 29,000 from the complainant, comprising Rs 20,000 for the current month and Rs 9,000 from last month.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days ago,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indian-police-bust-illegal-cricket-betting-gang\" target=\"_blank\">Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB) officers<\/a>\u00a0in Komadi arrested two people who were allegedly members of a cricket betting gang. Officers reportedly\u00a0<strong>confiscated the bank accounts of the two defendants<\/strong>, which contained around \u00a312,000, an ATM card and two mobile phones, which they handed over to Maduravada police for further investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week ago,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-6-bookies-arrested-for-betting-on-cricket-match\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">police in Jalandhar arrested six people<\/a>&nbsp;on charges of betting during an Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket match. In a raid at the Urban Estate Phase I area, officers seized a suitcase having 19 mobiles, five laptops and chargers and three WiFi setups among other electronic items and Rs 1,300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman police officer is accused of taking a cut of proceeds from an illegal casino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A police inspector in India has been arrested for allegedly accepting monthly bribes from an illegal casino operator and coercing him to continue operations. This incident, alongside other recent arrests related to illegal cricket betting, highlights significant regulatory compliance and governance challenges within the Indian market.","focusai_entities":"Munni Parihar, Ritesh Rathore, Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB), The Times of India","focusai_location":"India, Karnad Police Station, Agar Malwa, Komadi, Maduravada, Jalandhar, Urban Estate Phase I","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Impact?","query":"How will these high-profile arrests impact the broader regulatory enforcement strategy and integrity of anti-gambling operations in India?"},{"label":"Governance Reforms Needed?","query":"What specific governance frameworks or oversight mechanisms are being considered to mitigate corruption risks within law enforcement agencies overseeing gambling activities in emerging markets like India?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-29304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304","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=29304"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29310,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29304\/revisions\/29310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}