3 held on IPL betting charges

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Tuesday claimed to have smashed a cricket betting racket active during the IPL match between Delhi and Kolkata with the arrest of three persons.
Vikash Jain (29), Sandeep Pawar (30) and Vikash Chawla (35) were apprehended from a garment factory in southeast Delhi’s Tughlaqabad Extension on Monday.
Additional deputy commissioner of police (southeast), Meghna Yadav said that the racket was busted after police got a tip-off.A raid was conducted and the trio were arrested.
“The rates of the odds between the two cricket teams keep fluctuating with the fall of wickets and the runs scored over by over. A laptop was used for maintaining data and keeping records of bets. Mobile phones were used for getting the rates of the odds on the match and for taking bets from punters,” said Yadav. “The laptop was specifically used for receiving the rates of betting which fluctuate ball by ball. The data for betting was also maintained manually on the notebooks,” Yadav said.