MARGAO
The Fatorda police has claimed to have busted an illegal online gambling carried out from a shop at Borda on Saturday with the arrest of six persons.
Armed with a search warrant, the premise was raided by a police team headed by Fatorda police station in-charge, PI Navlesh Desai. The team seized four computers, a laptop, one CPU, cash of Rs 8,300, besides gambling material. Around eight cell phones were also attached in the operation.
Acting on a tip off that online gambling, besides matka activity was carried out in the premise, the police obtained a search warrant before conducting the raid at around 1.30 pm on Saturday.
PI Navlesh said the gambling activity was conducted allegedly by Sanveer Mohammad, aged 43 years, resident of Borda and the operations were overseen by Brajen Kumar Sarkar (33), resident of Madel, Margao. Both Sanveer and Brajen along with Akshay Dharma Naik (25), resident of Gogol, Harion Kashyap (21), resident of San Jose de Areal, Vinod Kumar (21), resident of Menezesbhat, San Jose de Areal and Irfhan Khan (21), resident of San Jose de Areal, have been arrested by the Fatorda police.
Replying to a question, he said that the last three persons, who have just completed their college education, were arrested as they had visited the centre for the purpose of gambling.
