From gambling to betting to prostitution in the famous hotels of the capital
After the increasing strictness of the police against online betting and gambling, the big players of gambling have started a new trend in the capital. Now instead of any farm house, ground or open space, rooms of expensive hotels are being booked for gambling. So that the police does not have any suspicion and the game of lakhs continues. During a week, the police raided four star hotels like Babylon and now Piccadilly and caught 19 gamblers. Like Babylon, mostly rich people were caught gambling in Hotel Piccadilly too. After the gambling den was caught in Piccadilly on Friday, on investigation it was found that booking a room in any four or five star hotel has become very easy. Rooms for gambling are being taken with the help of the hotel manager or an old employee there. For this, the room rent is being given almost double. chhattisgarh news
In hotels, gamblers tell in advance that there will be 10-15 people in the room. Usually the room is booked for the whole night, but its entry is not made in the register. It is being told that many times the room is booked on the phone of the hotel operator. Because the influential people are directly known to him.
Playing cards and 4.07 lakhs recovered
Daulat Ram Porte told that the team of Anti Crime and Cyber Unit had received information. Some suspicious people are present in a room in Piccadilly Hotel of Saraswati Nagar. The team of Anti Crime Unit and Saraswati Nagar police station raided the hotel on Thursday night. 9 boys were present in the room. When the police searched the room, playing cards and 4 lakh 7 thousand rupees were recovered.
Police arrested these accused
These accused are Sanjay Takhtani, Prabhat Malang, Rajesh Mandhani, Sunil Panjwani, Tarun, Amit Jain, Dinesh Motwani, Rakesh Idwani, Manohar Mandhani. Most of these accused are residents of Raipur. In this case, the police have registered a case against the owner of Piccadilly Hotel and are investigating.
Boys from influential families were also caught from Babylon
On 26th July, Raipur police had caught high profile gamblers from Babylon Capital Hotel in Raipur. In this case, police had arrested 10 accused under Gambling Act. About 2 lakh rupees were recovered from them. In this case, police were accused of not releasing the names of gamblers. However, Telibandha police had registered an FIR against the owner of Babylon Hotel.
The judicial capital is also not untouched, gambling party organized in the jungle with country-made pistols
Kota police raided the gamblers playing gambling in Bilaspur jungle. In this, 7 gamblers were caught after cordoning off the area. District outcast Harish alias Golu Singh was also arrested. A country-made pistol was seized from him. According to the information received, Kota police raided the people playing gambling in the jungle of village Karpiha. The police surrounded and caught 7 gamblers. These include district-banned Harish alias Golu Singh, father Swarg or Subhash Singh Thakur, age 50 years, address Purani Basti Kota, police station Kota, district Bilaspur, Vijay Banjare, father Aju Ram Banjare, age 30 years, address village Lamkena, police station Kota, Sanju Mehar, father Dwarka Prasad Mehar, age 34 years, address Lormi, police station Lormi, district Mungeli, Roshan Patle, father Dawad, age 23 years, address Akhbar, police station Lormi, district Mungeli, Hemant Ratare, father Vimal, age 24 years, address Vicharpur, police station Lalpur, district Mungeli, Mukesh Chandrakar, father Ramlal Chandrakar, age 42 years, address Kodapuri, police station Kunda, district Kabirdham, Narayan Mahara, father Chandra Ram, age 42 years, address Dabra Para Ratanpur, police station Ratanpur, district Bilaspur. 91 thousand 720 rupees, 10 bikes, 1 car, 7 mobile phones were seized from their possession. Along with this, during the search, 1 country-made pistol was confiscated from the possession of district-banished Golu Thakur. Action has been taken against him under Section 14, 15 of the Arms Act and Chhattisgarh State Security Act.
