{"id":777003436,"date":"2023-03-17T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777003436"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:38:52","slug":"india-15-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-15-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling","title":{"rendered":"India: 15 arrested for alleged illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Mancheswar made the arrests in the Pandra area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Police in Mancheswar, Odisha, have arrested <strong>15 people<\/strong> in the Pandra area of Bhubaneswar in connection with illegal gambling. Officers also seized Rs 4.4 lakh, a car and bikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere in India, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-3-arrested-in-connection-with-alleged-illegal-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">three people<\/a>&nbsp;were arrested this week in Mangaluru, Karnataka, after police received a tipoff about alleged&nbsp;<strong>matka&nbsp;<\/strong>gambling taking place on the ground floor of a building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matka is a form of gambling that originated in India and is popular in some other parts of South Asia. It was originally <strong>a type of lottery game<\/strong>&nbsp;that involved placing bets on the opening and closing rates of cotton transmitted to the Bombay Cotton Exchange from the New York Cotton Exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Mancheswar made the arrests in the Pandra area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25038,"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 Odisha and Karnataka, India, have conducted multiple arrests related to illegal gambling operations, specifically targeting 'matka' activities. These enforcement actions resulted in the seizure of significant cash and assets, underscoring ongoing regulatory challenges and the prevalence of illicit gaming within the region.","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"India, Odisha, Karnataka, Bhubaneswar, Mangaluru","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.7), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Efficacy?","query":"What are the broader implications of these localized enforcement actions for the efficacy of a comprehensive national strategy against illegal gambling operations in India?"},{"label":"Market Integrity Impact?","query":"How does the continued prevalence and enforcement against 'matka' gambling impact the perception of market integrity and the potential for future regulated iGaming market development in India?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777003436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003436","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=777003436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777003466,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003436\/revisions\/777003466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777003436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777003436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777003436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}