{"id":32589,"date":"2022-08-12T03:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T06:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=32589"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:57:55","slug":"india-32-arrested-for-illegal-gambling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-32-arrested-for-illegal-gambling-2","title":{"rendered":"India: 32 arrested for illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Aurangabad have carried out a raid in the basement of a hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Police have arrested 32 people in a raid on an alleged illegal gambling operation located in the basement of a hotel in Aurangabad. Police seized gambling materials, cash, mobile phones and other items worth Rs 3.10 lakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Lokmat Times, the gambling den was being operated by a police officer who had been suspended from duty after he was found gambling in a building adjacent to the police commissioner&#8217;s office. He is alleged to have opened the operation after being suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days ago, police in&nbsp;<strong>Haryana<\/strong>&nbsp;carried out&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-raids-end-with-13-arrests-for-illegal-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two raids arresting 13 people<\/a>&nbsp;for alleged involvement in illegal gambling. The first raid was carried out at Boudh Raj Dhaba.&nbsp;<strong>Nine people were arrested&nbsp;<\/strong>and police seized Rs28,683. The Kalka police station filed a complaint under the Gambling Act against all the accused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere in India, police in Bibwewadi, Pune, recently carried out a series of raids that ended with&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-42-arrested-for-illegal-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the arrest of 42 people<\/a>&nbsp;for alleged involvement in illegal gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Aurangabad have carried out a raid in the basement of a hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26706,"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 law enforcement has conducted multiple raids across Aurangabad, Haryana, and Pune, resulting in the arrest of 87 individuals involved in alleged illegal gambling operations. These actions highlight ongoing challenges with unlicensed gaming activities and underscore the imperative for robust regulatory enforcement to maintain market integrity.","focusai_entities":"Lokmat Times","focusai_location":"India, Aurangabad, Haryana, Pune, Kalka","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), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India Regulatory Outlook","query":"What are the long-term implications of these widespread enforcement actions on the potential for a federal regulatory framework for iGaming in India, and how might this impact B2C licensing prospects?"},{"label":"Impact on Regulated Market","query":"How do persistent illegal gambling operations, as evidenced by these raids, affect the GGR potential and market share of prospective licensed operators in India?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-32589","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\/32589","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=32589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32610,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32589\/revisions\/32610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}