{"id":777004332,"date":"2023-04-14T14:17:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T17:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004332"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:50:58","slug":"india-5-arrested-for-alleged-cricket-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-5-arrested-for-alleged-cricket-betting","title":{"rendered":"India: 5 arrested for alleged cricket betting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Jonk made the arrests after receiving a tipoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Police in Jonk, Odisha, have made five arrests for alleged cricket betting. According to&nbsp;<strong>Nuapada SP Gundala Reddy Raghavendra<\/strong>, police received a tipoff during a night patrol about betting at a house behind Ram Temple at Khariar Road.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the New Indian Express, the police team immediately raided the location and arrested five people from the Raipur, Bemetara and Rajnandgaon areas of Chhattisgarh. Police<strong> seized 21 mobile phones, four laptops<\/strong>, 15 ATM cards, 10 chequebook and five bank passbooks. Officers say bets were being taken through two websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, nine people, aged between 18 and 35, were&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-9-arrested-for-taking-bets-on-cricket\" target=\"_blank\">arrested in Pune<\/a>, Maharashtra, for allegedly taking bets on the cricket match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings at Bramha Aangan in Kondhwa on Saturday night (April 8).&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Jonk made the arrests after receiving a tipoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25294,"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 Jonk, Odisha, India, arrested five individuals for alleged illegal cricket betting, seizing digital devices and financial instruments. This follows a separate incident in Pune, Maharashtra, where nine people were arrested for similar illicit betting activities. These events underscore ongoing challenges in combating unregulated gambling operations within India's complex legal framework.","focusai_entities":"Gundala Reddy Raghavendra, Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, New Indian Express","focusai_location":"India, Odisha, Jonk, Nuapada, Khariar Road, Chhattisgarh, Raipur, Bemetara, Rajnandgaon, Pune, Maharashtra, Kondhwa","focusai_target_profile":"regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), operator_casino (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India's Regulatory Efficacy?","query":"What specific policy or enforcement adjustments are Indian regulators contemplating to more effectively curb the proliferation of illegal online betting operations, particularly those leveraging digital payment rails and offshore platforms?"},{"label":"Impact on Regulated Market?","query":"How do these persistent illegal betting activities in India impact the potential for a regulated iGaming market, specifically concerning investor confidence and the viability of B2C licensing frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777004332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-illegal-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004332","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=777004332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004345,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004332\/revisions\/777004345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}