{"id":777014762,"date":"2024-04-16T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777014762"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:08:53","slug":"india-arrests-for-alleged-gambling-on-ipl-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-arrests-for-alleged-gambling-on-ipl-matches","title":{"rendered":"India: arrests for alleged gambling on IPL matches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pune Police&#8217;s Anti-Extortion Squad arrested 10 people in a raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Pune Police&#8217;s crime branch Anti-Extortion Squad (Unit I) has arrested\u00a0<strong>10 people over alleged<\/strong> online betting on Indian Premier League (IPL) matches.\u00a0They seized items worth approximately Rs 2.20 lakh in a raid in the Bhusari Colony area of Kothrud at 9.30pm on Saturday (April 13).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to The Hindustan Times, those arrested, aged between 21 and 32, have been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Prohibition of Gambling Act and Indian Telegraph Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-29-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling-in-goa\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">India: 29 arrested for alleged illegal gambling in Goa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pune Police&#8217;s Anti-Extortion Squad arrested 10 people in a raid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777011924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Pune Police's Anti-Extortion Squad arrested 10 individuals for alleged illegal online betting on Indian Premier League (IPL) matches, seizing assets worth approximately Rs 2.20 lakh. The arrests, made in Kothrud, Pune, on April 13, involved charges under the Indian Penal Code, Prohibition of Gambling Act, and Indian Telegraph Act, highlighting ongoing regulatory enforcement against illicit gaming operations in India.","focusai_entities":"Pune Police, Anti-Extortion Squad, Indian Premier League, The Hindustan Times","focusai_location":"India, Pune, Goa","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.85), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.88), journalist_researcher (0.92)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Regulated Market?","query":"What is the estimated GGR leakage from illegal online betting operations in India, and how do these enforcement actions influence the timeline or viability of a future regulated iGaming market?"},{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Trends?","query":"Beyond these arrests, what broader trends in regulatory enforcement and legislative amendments are observable in India concerning online gambling, and what are the implications for B2B\/B2C licensing frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777014762","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\/777014762","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=777014762"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014787,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014762\/revisions\/777014787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777011924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}