Indore Police bust massive IPL betting operation

Indore: The Indore police claimed to have busted a racket involving betting of crores of rupees on the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches and arrested eight persons in this connection, an official said on Thursday.

Based on a tip-off, the eight persons were apprehended on Wednesday night from a flat in a multi-storey building in Lasudia area here in Madhya Pradesh when they were making people place bets online on the IPL matches through a website, Additional Deputy Commissioner.

The accused had obtained mobile phone SIM cards in fake names and used to take betting amounts from people through QR codes, the official said. Agencies

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