Ghaziabad: Nandgram police have arrested a husband and wife for betting on the Cricket World Cup. Both of them used to get high profile people to place bets by renting flats in the society of Rajnagar Extension. For this, he had brought online betting training from Dubai. According to the police, both of them had also placed bets during the World Cup matches. The police are still collecting information about the transaction. It is estimated that he has made betting worth more than Rs 1 crore through more than 100 people. Police have recovered a laptop, 4 mobiles and 5 SIMs from the accused.
ACP Nandgram Ravi Kumar said that the names of the accused are Saurabh Jain and Rupali Jain. Both are husband and wife and are originally residents of Shahdara, Delhi. He was living on rent in a flat in Windsor Paradise Society for about 2 months. Through Dubai Connect app, the accused used to connect high profile people online and get them betting.
Both were active during the Cricket World Cup and money was invested in the matches. Some other names including Abhinav Jain have also come forward in the case. The laptop found from the accused is also being checked, because data of invites for betting was also sent to them online. Preliminary investigation has not revealed any fraud in the case.
Went to Dubai for 2 days and took training
The ACP said that the accused lived in Shahdara and had a business of umbrellas and clothes. Business came to a standstill due to Covid. When the situation worsened, even the house was sold. After this, through Abhinav Jain, he got information about online betting and sent him to Dubai for 2 days, where a team gave him information about many types of betting including cricket, race, share market through some apps. . For 2 days, he was given some data along with details about this, after which he returned to India and started working on it.
Both of them had also placed bets during the World Cup matches. The police are still collecting information about the transaction. Another main accused is being searched.
Ravi Kumar, ACP Nandgram
Data of shoppers is available
The accused have data of people who have recently shopped at some big outlets. On the basis of that data, he used to send invites to people for betting. If some people were interested then they would have contacted and deposited the money through the online app. The money received in this was sent to Dubai only. Both get commission. ACP said that the details of getting the data from the shopping store are being ascertained. The help of cyber cell will be taken in this.
Money invested in World Cup matches
During interrogation, the accused told that betting takes place at many places in Dubai. Both the accused are working for the same network. Betting was done for almost all the matches during the World Cup matches. He was given information from Dubai itself, after which he used to tell about it to the speculators. Money for betting was sent through UPI. People used to get returns from the app. He told that this is a big network, after the arrest of Abhinav Jain other information will also come out in it.