{"id":777017942,"date":"2024-08-07T06:35:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T09:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777017942"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:25:11","slug":"india-14-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-14-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling-3","title":{"rendered":"India: 14 arrested for alleged illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police made the arrests in Paschim Vihar, New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Police in New Delhi have arrested 14 people, aged between 22 and 70, for allegedly operating a gambling business at a house in Paschim Vihar. Officers seized Rs 2.2m, their largest seizure of cash from a gambling operation in recent years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers also seized two banknote counting machines, as well as two briefcases designed to hold several mobile phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere in India, seven people, aged between 28 to 51 years old, have been arrested for illegal gambling at a house near Mahila Talav in Thaltej, Gujarat. Police received a tip-off and found 12 people in the house, but five managed to escape. Police seized Rs 4.37 lakh in cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-31-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-gambling\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">India: 31 arrested for alleged illegal gambling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police made the arrests in Paschim Vihar, New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16739,"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 New Delhi and Gujarat have conducted significant raids, arresting 21 individuals for operating illegal gambling businesses. These operations resulted in the seizure of substantial cash, including Rs 2.2 million in New Delhi, marking one of the largest recent cash seizures from such activities in the region. The arrests underscore ongoing regulatory enforcement efforts against illicit gambling within India.","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"India, New Delhi, Paschim Vihar, Gujarat, Thaltej","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Regulated Market?","query":"What is the estimated GGR leakage from these types of persistent illegal gambling operations, and how does this impact the potential for a future regulated iGaming market in India?"},{"label":"Enforcement Strategy Efficacy?","query":"Given the scale of these seizures, what specific enhancements are being considered for regulatory compliance and enforcement frameworks to more effectively deter and dismantle large-scale illegal gambling networks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777017942","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\/777017942","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=777017942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017953,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017942\/revisions\/777017953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777017942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777017942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777017942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}