{"id":777012614,"date":"2024-01-24T08:21:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T11:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012614"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:43:32","slug":"india-8-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-8-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling-3","title":{"rendered":"India: 8 arrested for alleged illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police in Jawaharnagar carried out a raid in Kabranagar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India.- Police in Jawaharnagar have made eight arrests in a raid in Kabranagar. According to Free Press Journal, officers were on patrol within the jurisdiction of Jawaharnagar police station when they received information that <strong>some people were gambling near Masjid Road<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police say the alleged gamblers attempted to flee but were apprehended. Police seized \u20b97,000 in cash, mobile phones worth \u20b954,000 and a motorcycle worth \u20b994,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere in India, police in Ahmedabad have <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-8-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-online-gambling\">arrested eight people<\/a> in the Madhavpura area of the city. They say the suspects were involved in an\u00a0<strong>illegal gambling network that operated through a mobile app<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BD Bhatt<\/strong>, an inspector at the city\u2019s cybercrime division said police received a tip-off and closely monitored the app. He said they detected\u00a0<strong>a mobile phone streaming live gambling<\/strong>.\u00a0Bhatt said this was the state\u2019s first detected case of live online gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Jawaharnagar carried out a raid in Kabranagar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"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 India conducted two separate raids, arresting eight individuals in Jawaharnagar for illegal gambling and seizing cash, mobile phones, and a motorcycle. Concurrently, authorities in Ahmedabad apprehended eight suspects involved in an illegal mobile app-based gambling network, marking the state's first detected case of live online gambling. These enforcement actions highlight ongoing challenges in combating illicit gaming operations within the jurisdiction.","focusai_entities":"Free Press Journal, BD Bhatt","focusai_location":"India, Jawaharnagar, Kabranagar, Ahmedabad, Madhavpura","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), tech_data (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on India's iGaming?","query":"What are the broader implications of these enforcement actions, particularly the detection of live online gambling, for the future regulatory landscape and potential for legal iGaming market development in India?"},{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Strategy?","query":"How do these arrests and the specific targeting of mobile app-based illegal gambling networks reflect evolving regulatory enforcement strategies against illicit online gaming operations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777012614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-illegal-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012614","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=777012614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012617,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012614\/revisions\/777012617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}