{"id":29808,"date":"2022-05-12T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T11:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=29808"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:46:27","slug":"india-6-arrested-over-cricket-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-6-arrested-over-cricket-betting","title":{"rendered":"India: 6 arrested over cricket betting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Vadodara arrested six people who were allegedly connected to an illegal cricket betting racket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Raids continue in India as police crack down on illegal betting on cricket matches.<strong> Vadodara police have arrested six people<\/strong> allegedly linked to an illegal gambling network that was dismantled last month. Police had been searching for the business&#8217;s managers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Times of India reported that the group had more than 110 customers betting on IPL matches through a website allegedly run by the defendants. Salman Golawala, another alleged leader, has not yet been arrested yet. Salman is believed to have taken a commission on bookies&#8217; winnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police recently reported that in Delhi, there have been more than\u00a0<strong>1,000 cases<\/strong>, resulting in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-2300-arrests-related-to-illegal-gambling-in-new-delhi-this-year\" target=\"_blank\">2,300 arrests<\/a>\u00a0related to illegal gambling operations. A few days ago,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-8-arrested-for-betting-on-cricket-match\" target=\"_blank\">police in Nerul<\/a>\u00a0arrested eight people for allegedly betting illegally through an app during a Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings Eleven cricket match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Vadodara arrested six people who were allegedly connected to an illegal cricket betting racket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16308,"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 are intensifying their crackdown on illegal cricket betting, with recent arrests in Vadodara linked to an online network facilitating wagers on IPL matches. This follows broader enforcement actions across India, highlighting persistent challenges in regulating the informal betting market and ensuring compliance within the gaming vertical.","focusai_entities":"Salman Golawala, Gujarat Titans, Punjab Kings Eleven","focusai_location":"India, Vadodara, Delhi, Nerul","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 (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India's Regulatory Efficacy","query":"What specific enhancements to India's regulatory compliance and enforcement frameworks are being considered to more effectively transition informal betting markets into a regulated iGaming vertical?"},{"label":"Impact on Licensed Operators","query":"How do persistent illegal betting operations, particularly those leveraging online platforms, impact the GGR and NGR projections for prospective licensed B2C operators in India?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-29808","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\/29808","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=29808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29826,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29808\/revisions\/29826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}