Five persons were arrested from suburban Jogeshwari on Saturday for carrying out illegal betting for the tri-nation one-day series match between Australia and New Zealand at Melbourne.
Acting on meticulously gathered information by the crime branch, police squad raided a flat at Jamuna Amrut Building and nabbed the five while accepting illegal betting on the cricket match in which fortunes fluctuated with New Zealand scoring an upset win, police said in Mumbai on Saturday.
The five were accepting the bets through mobile phones, landlines and also online.
Seven telephone sets, four mobile handsets, a computer, two tape recorders and a magnetic eraser, collectively valued at Rs 60,000, were also seized from them, police added. Bureau Report