Gambling racket busted; 19 held

Hyderabad: Mylardevpally police busted a gambling racket at Shastripuram in Rajendranagar and arrested 19 persons on Sunday.

At 9 am, cops raided the gambling den at Mustafa Nagar in Shastripuram and arrested 19 persons including, Md Osman, N Sridhar Reddy, E Raju, K Ravinder, M Vijay Kumar, M Durgesh Babu, Khaja Moinuddin, Mahabub Pasha, Anas Ahmed, Md Mateen, Md Wazed, Md Farooq Khan, Syed Majid, Md Mohsin, Md Zuber, J Bhaskar Reddy, Abdul Jafer, Ali Bin Mahabub Amri and Md Nadeem Khan for indulging in three cards gambling. Police seized Rs 92,150 cash, 20 cellphones and 262 playing cards from the possession of the accused.