{"id":777009353,"date":"2023-09-18T02:46:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T05:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777009353"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:01:45","slug":"india-40-arrested-over-alleged-illegal-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-40-arrested-over-alleged-illegal-gambling","title":{"rendered":"India: 40 arrested over alleged illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police in Gurugram say they found an illegal casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Police in Gurugram claim to have dismantled an illegal casino in the vicinity of Sakatpur. They arrested f 40 people and seized \u20b92,10,000 in cash, 25 bottles of high-value liquor, 33 bottles of beer, 2,511 tokens and 12 card packets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those arrested, three people, Krishna Kumar (54) of Jyoti Park colony, along with Surendra Kumar (57) and Manish (33) from Ramnagar colony, are accused of orchestrating an illegal casino operation and serving alcohol without permits. Police registered a first information report (FIR) under the Indian Penal Code and the Excise Act at the Badshahpur police station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Subhash Broken<\/strong>, a spokesperson for the Gurugram police, said that during interrogations, those arrested said they were inspired by visits to casinos in Goa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere,\u00a0<strong>Gujarat Police\u00a0<\/strong>arrested\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-10-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">10 people over an alleged gambling operation<\/a>\u00a0in a residential complex in Ahmedabad. Police seized 12 mobile phones valued at over Rs 3 lakh, playing chips and cash amounting to Rs 43,330. Police said the organisers would invite customers and provide them with playing chips valued at Rs 25,000. These could later be exchanged for cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Gurugram say they found an illegal casino.<\/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":"Police in Gurugram, India, dismantled an illegal casino operation, arresting 40 individuals and seizing significant cash, liquor, and gambling tokens. Separately, Ahmedabad police arrested 10 people for an alleged gambling operation in a residential complex. These incidents highlight ongoing challenges with illicit gambling activities in regions without regulated frameworks, contrasting with legal operations in areas like Goa.","focusai_entities":"Krishna Kumar, Surendra Kumar, Manish, Subhash Broken, Gurugram police, Badshahpur police station, Gujarat Police, Ahmedabad police","focusai_location":"India, Gurugram, Sakatpur, Goa, Ahmedabad","focusai_target_profile":"regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India's Regulatory Gaps","query":"What specific regulatory and enforcement gaps in India are exploited by such illicit gambling operations, and how do these incidents impact the discourse on a unified national iGaming framework?"},{"label":"Illicit Market Impact","query":"Beyond immediate enforcement, what is the estimated economic impact of these illicit gambling markets on potential GGR for regulated operators and tax revenues for the state?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777009353","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\/777009353","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=777009353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009372,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009353\/revisions\/777009372"}],"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=777009353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777009353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777009353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}