Gurugram:  Cyber Police Station busted a illegal call centre which was running betting through an online app, leading to the arrest of nine accused from GLS Home residential society on Sohna Road on the information and under the direction of Priyanshu Diwan, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Cyber Crime, Gurugram. The police recovered three laptops, 38 mobile phones, 25 bank account kits and 22 ATM cards from their possession during a raid in a flat on Tuesday night . He said, police received information on Tuesday regarding fraud committed by some people in a flat by running a call centre running games and betting (playing satta) through an online gaming app and transferring money to banks. The police raided GLS Home Society flat at Sohna where nine persons were found playing online games and arrested the accused.

The arrested accused were identified as Manish resident of Sonipat, Toshan Kumar resident of Kangra (H.P), Mohit Gera resident of Fatehabad, Rakesh resident of Fatehabad, Anmol Gillhotra resident of Lajpat Nagar New Delhi, Bablu resident of Unnao (U.P), Sanyam resident of New Delhi and Sagar resident of Hisar who was king pin in the gang. The accused were found playing online gambling/ betting and a case was registered against them under Section 318(4) BNS, Gambling Act and relevant sections of IT Act at Cyber Crime Police Station (West), Gurugram. All arrested were being paid salary by the mastermind Sagar of about 20 thousand rupees and 5 per cent commission for doing this work, allegedly used to make people deposit money and play online games/betting through online apps providing bank accounts to deposit money as well as to commit fraud through online gaming. The accused have been running this call centre for the last about 02 months. The accused were produced in the Court and taken on police remand for further interrogation.