{"id":30577,"date":"2022-06-08T05:10:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=30577"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:58:56","slug":"india-28-arrested-for-illegal-gambling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-28-arrested-for-illegal-gambling-2","title":{"rendered":"India: 28 arrested for illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Delhi have arrested 28 people who were allegedly involved in illegal gambling in a park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.-<strong>\u00a0A total of 28 people<\/strong>\u00a0who have been arrested in the state capital of Delhi in connection with illegal gambling. Officers say they received confidential information about gambling in the Shakurpur area at around 9.30pm on June 4. When they arrived, they found people gambling and playing satta inside a park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police seized money, gambling items, notepads, calculators and pens. Ten of those arrested were said to be operating the satta and 18 others were gambling. Satta is a form of lottery which originally involved betting on the opening and closing rates of cotton transmitted from the New York Cotton Exchange to the Bombay Cotton Exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far this year,&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/delhi-provides-update-on-number-of-arrests-related-to-illegal-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Police in Delhi<\/a>&nbsp;have arrested more than<strong>&nbsp;3,502 people&nbsp;<\/strong>in 1,489 raids related to illegal gambling. According to The Hindu, most of the arrests were linked to illegal gambling around IPL cricket. It comes after a drop in arrests in recent years. Some 5,776 people were 2020 and 8,009 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days ago,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-3-arrested-for-illegal-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">police arrested three people<\/a>\u00a0who were allegedly running a gambling racket in an apartment located in Hyderabad. Those arrested, aged between 26 and 42, had 1.15 crore in cash. When the police arrived at the scene they found two people gambling while a third was in another room. There he was arrested and the police seized a total of Rs 1,113 crore.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Delhi have arrested 28 people who were allegedly involved in illegal gambling in a park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Delhi police have arrested 28 individuals for illegal gambling, including 'satta,' in a park, seizing cash and related items. This incident contributes to over 3,500 arrests in Delhi this year for illegal gambling, often linked to IPL cricket, and follows a separate significant bust in Hyderabad. The sustained enforcement actions highlight ongoing challenges in regulating the informal gambling sector in India.","focusai_entities":"New York Cotton Exchange, Bombay Cotton Exchange, The Hindu, IPL","focusai_location":"India, Delhi, Shakurpur, Hyderabad","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 (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India's Regulatory Outlook","query":"What are the long-term implications of sustained enforcement against illegal gambling on the potential for a regulated iGaming market in India, particularly concerning B2B\/B2C licensing and taxation frameworks?"},{"label":"Black Market Impact","query":"How do large-scale illegal gambling operations, such as those involving 'satta' and IPL betting, impact the potential GGR and NGR for future regulated operators, and what strategies are effective in migrating players from the black market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-30577","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\/30577","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=30577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30582,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30577\/revisions\/30582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}