Crime Branch’s Unit-3 raided a house and caught a bookie red-handed while accepting online bets on IPL cricket match between SRH and RBC on late April 15 evening.
Identified as Abhishek Kumar Sikander Prasad (36), the accused is a resident of Jagnade Chowk, near Gyanvikas School.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of Unit-3 of the Crime Branch raided Flat No 202, Grace Apartments, Bhagwan Nagar and caught Abhishek red-handed while accepting online bets.
Cops seized a LED television, a set-top box, five cellphones and a laptop collectively worth Rs 1,10,200 lakh. Another bookie named Vishal Patil, who, too, was involved in the betting racket, is at large.
A case under Sections 4 and 5 of the Gambling Act has been registered against both the bookies.