{"id":777010598,"date":"2023-10-26T07:01:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T10:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777010598"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:46:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:46:59","slug":"india-8-arrested-for-alleged-gambling-on-card-games-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-8-arrested-for-alleged-gambling-on-card-games-in-punjab","title":{"rendered":"India: 8 arrested for alleged gambling on card games in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police seized \u20b91 lakh in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Police in Ludhiana, Punjab, have arrested eight people allegedly involved in illicit gambling on card games. Police Division Number 7 seized \u20b91 lakh in cash as part of an investigation led by Assistant Sub-Inspector Kuldeep Singh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say the accused had gathered at a residence in Sanjay Gandhi Colony to participate in card game betting. A case has been registered under Sections 13, 3, and 67 of the Gambling Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere in India,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indian-man-arrested-for-alleged-betting-on-cricket-world-cup-match\" target=\"_blank\">police in Pune arrested a 38-year-old man in the Kalewadi area<\/a>\u00a0for alleged illegal betting on a Cricket World Cup match between England and South Africa.\u00a0Police seized cash amounting to \u20b940 lakh, two mobile phones and a calculator. They reportedly received a tip-off about the existence of a large-scale cricket betting syndicate operating from a flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police seized \u20b91 lakh in cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26546,"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 Ludhiana, Punjab, arrested eight individuals for illicit card game gambling, seizing \u20b91 lakh. Separately, Pune police apprehended a man involved in illegal Cricket World Cup betting, confiscating \u20b940 lakh, highlighting ongoing enforcement against unregulated gambling operations across India.","focusai_entities":"Assistant Sub-Inspector Kuldeep Singh, Police Division Number 7","focusai_location":"India, Ludhiana, Punjab, Pune, Sanjay Gandhi Colony, Kalewadi area","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India's Regulatory Impact","query":"What are the broader implications of these enforcement actions for the potential acceleration or deceleration of a regulated iGaming market in India, particularly concerning B2B\/B2C licensing and taxation frameworks?"},{"label":"AML & Illicit Flows","query":"How do these seizures of significant cash amounts from illegal gambling syndicates inform the ongoing development of AML and counter-fraud strategies for prospective regulated payments providers and operators in the Indian market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777010598","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\/777010598","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=777010598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041074,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010598\/revisions\/777041074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777010598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777010598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777010598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}