Police arrest four persons for alleged involvement in betting on IPL matches

Kanpur: Mainpuri police arrested four persons for their alleged involvement in betting in IPL matches on Wednesday. The four identified as Jitendra of Kanpur, Abhishek Chauhan and Abhishek Kumar, besides Suraj Singh, all locals of Mainpuri, were accepting bets on the IPL matches. Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided a house in the Mohalla Agarwal locality and arrested the accused persons while accepting bets on the IPL match on Wednesday evening, police said on Thursday.

Police has seized computers and huge cash and mobile phones from the four. A case was registered at Kotwali police station and all the four were later sent to jail.