Raipur. Raipur police has made a big disclosure in the betting case. According to the police, Kaushal Sahu lodged a report at Khamtarai police station that he lives in Sahupara Danganiya and works as a daily wage earner. Prarthi’s friend Yuvraj Sahu resident Dangania told the applicant on March 2023 that his acquaintance Prasoon Dwivedi resident Urkura needs a bank account for some important work, who will return the bank account after using it for a few days. On which the applicant and Yuvraj Sahu met Prasun Dwivedi near Urkura, where Prasun Dwivedi told the applicant that he needed his bank account for a few days to do personal necessary transactions, which would return his account to him after the transaction. And will use the bank account personally, no one will use it wrongly. On which, coming to the words of the applicant Yuvraj Sahu and Prasun Dwivedi, on 22.03.2023, along with Yuvraj Sahu, went to Canara Bank located in Kabir Nagar and opened his account and got his bank account passbook, A.T.M. On the same day he went to Urkura and gave it to Prasoon Dwivedi, since then the ATM of the applicant’s bank account. Prasoon Dwivedi kept the card and passbook himself and started using it, meanwhile, after a few days, the applicant went to Canara Bank branch Kabir Nagar and got his account checked, then the bank manager told him that due to the transaction of too much money in his account, his bank account would be suspended. has been blocked. When the applicant got suspicious, he contacted Prasun Dwivedi and asked about the transactions done in his bank account, then he started evasive, Prasun Dwivedi misused his bank account without giving information to the applicant, a huge amount Illegal transaction has been done. On inquiry by the applicant, he also got the information that Prasun Dwivedi was keeping bank account of other people also and was using it wrongly. On which crime number 596/23 section 420, 34 Bhadvi was registered against the accused Prasun Dwivedi and Yuvraj Sahu in police station Khamtarai. and Ch. The offense of section 07 and 08 of the Gambling (Prohibition) Act 2022 was registered.
Under the direction of senior officers, the joint team of Anti-Crime and Cyber Unit and Thana Khamtrai Police arrested 14 accused earlier in the case and seized 06 passbooks, 13 ATMs related to the incident from their possession. Cards, 02 mobile phones and Rs 3000/- in cash have been seized and detailed inquiry has been made in relation to other persons involved in the case and money transactions in online betting.
On interrogation of the arrested accused, information was received from the bank accounts operated by them on 02 current accounts and total 17 bank accounts till date, which have been found to be operated in different bank branches including Raipur, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai etc. The transaction details of all these bank accounts for the last 06 months were obtained from the concerned bank, from the observation of which it is known that transactions worth crores were found to be accounted for in a single account only in 06 months. Transaction accounts of more than 30 crores have been reflected in all Jumla bank accounts and information is also being received regarding the amount transferred from these accounts to other accounts and also on the accounts receiving money from them. Monitoring is being done. A total of more than 09 lakh rupees currently available in the above accounts has been put on hold. Along with this, correspondence has also been made to the concerned telecom service provider company to deactivate all the mobile numbers linked to these accounts. Continuous monitoring is being done on all the online platforms operating various online betting including Mahadev Betting App and continuous action will be taken against them in future also.
