{"id":30714,"date":"2022-06-13T05:39:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T08:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=30714"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:51:05","slug":"india-36-arrested-for-illegal-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-36-arrested-for-illegal-gambling","title":{"rendered":"India: 36 arrested for illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Pune have carried out a raid that ended with 36 arrests for alleged involvement in illegal gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.-\u00a0Police in Pune have arrested 36 people\u00a0after discovering an alleged illegal gambling den located in the parking lot of a building in Mangalwar Peth. According to authorities, one of those arrested was identified as the operator. The police are still searching for five partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police operation came as part of an order issued by the Social Security Cell (SSC) in-charge police inspector Rajesh Puranik who, according to The Hindustan Times, has stepped up operations against <strong>illegal gambling operations<\/strong>\u00a0in the city. In recent weeks, there have been many police operations across India targeting illegal\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-5-arrested-for-betting-on-cricket-match\" target=\"_blank\">betting on cricket matches<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, India continues to consider <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-considers-regulating-online-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">the possible legalisation of gambling<\/a>.\u00a0As previously reported by Focus Gaming News, a seven-member team that includes state ministers has been tasked to identify a nodal ministry to oversee the industry. Its responsibilities include developing regulatory mechanisms to protect players and business principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the panel will pay particular attention to the<strong>\u00a0legal and legislative frameworks<\/strong>\u00a0used by other regulators in the world to help formulate policies that could be considered acceptable in areas of India where anti-gambling sentiment exists locally. The hope is that legalising gaming will help curb illegal offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Pune have carried out a raid that ended with 36 arrests for alleged involvement in illegal gambling.<\/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":"Police in Pune, India, conducted a raid resulting in 36 arrests for illegal gambling, part of intensified operations against illicit betting. Concurrently, India is actively exploring the legalisation of gambling, with a ministerial committee tasked to establish regulatory frameworks and identify a nodal ministry to oversee the industry. This initiative aims to mitigate illegal offerings by introducing a regulated market, drawing insights from international regulatory models.","focusai_entities":"Pune Police, Social Security Cell (SSC), Rajesh Puranik, The Hindustan Times, Focus Gaming News","focusai_location":"Pune, India","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India Legalisation Timeline","query":"What is the projected timeline for the seven-member ministerial committee to propose a comprehensive regulatory framework for gambling legalisation in India, and what are the key legislative hurdles anticipated?"},{"label":"Impact on Illegal Market","query":"How effective are intensified police operations, such as those in Pune, in genuinely curbing the GGR of the illegal gambling market, particularly concerning cricket betting, in the absence of a regulated alternative?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-30714","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\/30714","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=30714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30724,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714\/revisions\/30724"}],"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=30714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}