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Virendra Gahwai, Bilaspur. Police has taken a big action against gambling late last night. Police raided a gambling den in Kori Dam of Kota area and caught 22 famous youths gambling. Councillors and district members are also among the accused. Police has recovered Rs 3.50 lakh cash, 7 cars and 22 mobiles from the accused. Action is being taken against the accused under the Gambling Act.
Police had received information that people were gambling for lakhs of rupees by putting up gambling dens near Kori Dam in Kota. On this, SDOP Kota Nupur Upadhyay was immediately sent to the spot with adequate force along with police station in-charge Kota. On the arrival of the police force, it was seen that 4 gambling dens were set up by the gamblers, on seeing the police, the gamblers tried to run away but the police party surrounded and caught the gamblers. After which, a zero FIR was lodged by the police by bringing them to the boundary of the irrigation department building near the dam. 22 gamblers were caught gambling on the spot, when all the gambling dens were searched, a total of 3 lakh 49,215 rupees were recovered from the gamblers. Along with this, 7 cars and 22 mobiles have been seized.
Names of gamblers caught-
Sunil Yadav, Chantidih Bilaspur
Shyam Murti, Chantidih Bilaspur
Amit Singh, Laxmi Nagar Raipur
Rajesh Sahu, Gondpara Bilaspur
Dinesh Singh, Bandhavapara Bilaspur
Sanjeev Sahu, Takhatpur
Mahesh Kumar Gabel, Chantidih Bilaspur
Hariom Sahu, Khamtarai Bilaspur
Chandraprakash Marawi, Nagoi Takhatpur
Deepak Soni, Ashok Vihar Phase-2 Bilaspur
Amit Hill, Sakri Bilaspur
Amit Bharate (Councilor Municipal Corporation) Sakri Bilaspur
Deepak Sahu, Godaiya Ratanpur
Sandeep Mishra, Neel Palace Bilaspur
Shivendra Kaushik (Takhatpur District Member) Nagoi Takhatpur
Rakesh Singh, Dayalband Bilaspur
Suraj Textiles, Ameri Bilaspur
Sanjay Dhruv, Jadpara Bilaspur
Srikant Tiwari, Mangala Bilaspur
Akbar Khan, Dayalband Bilaspur
Jitesh Mor, Mallkhoroda Sakti
Arpit Sehgal, Nariyal Kothi Bilaspur