{"id":777012561,"date":"2024-01-23T09:59:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T12:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012561"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:45:28","slug":"india-8-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-8-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"India: 8 arrested for alleged illegal online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The arrests were made in Ahmedabad after a live gambling stream was detected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Police in Ahmedabad have arrested eight people in the Madhavpura area of the city. They say the suspects were involved in an <strong>illegal gambling network that operated through a mobile app<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BD Bhatt<\/strong>, an inspector at the city&#8217;s cybercrime division said police received a tip-off and closely monitored the app. He said they detected <strong>a mobile phone streaming live gambling<\/strong>.\u00a0Bhatt said this was the state&#8217;s first detected case of live online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To access the app, <strong>players had to pay an initial fee of \u20b910,000<\/strong>, which also served as a virtual gambling balance. For amounts exceeding \u20b910,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indian-ed-seizes-assets-allegedly-linked-to-illegal-online-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indian ED seizes assets allegedly linked to illegal online gambling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrests were made in Ahmedabad after a live gambling stream was detected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19187,"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 Ahmedabad, India, have arrested eight individuals involved in an illegal live online gambling network operating via a mobile application, marking the state's first detected case of its kind. Players accessed the app by paying an initial fee, which also served as a virtual gambling balance. This enforcement action highlights ongoing challenges in combating illicit iGaming operations.","focusai_entities":"BD Bhatt, Police, cybercrime division","focusai_location":"India, Ahmedabad, Madhavpura","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.85), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Enforcement Scalability & Tech","query":"What specific technological and financial forensics were employed to detect and dismantle this live online gambling network, and how can these methods be scaled for broader enforcement across India?"},{"label":"Regulatory Impact India","query":"Given this is the 'first detected case of live online gambling' in the state, what are the broader implications for India's evolving iGaming regulatory landscape, and how might this influence future B2B\/B2C licensing discussions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[4138],"class_list":["post-777012561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012561","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=777012561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012591,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012561\/revisions\/777012591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}