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New Delhi, December 11
The Delhi Police South district raided an illegal casino in the South Extension area and arrested 16 persons, including the son of a serving Assistant Commissioner of Delhi Police.
The police raided a casino operating in M-Block of South Extension-II for the last nine months. The police identified the owner of the casino as a father-son duo, Manish Bindal (55) and his son Ankur Bindal (30). Both are chartered accountants.
The other accused include son of ACP in Delhi Police, Vivek Jain (28) who is allegedly involved in gambling activities.
The police identified the other accused as chartered accountant Aakash Sarda (30), Abhishek Sharma (34), Sajan Mukhia (27), Prashant Goyal (43) who runs a transport company, steel trader Moksh Arora (31), Sahil Kumar who is preparing for competitive exams, Lalit Khanna (39) who runs a consultancy firm, Sachin Gupta (44) who runs a printing firm, Kartik Kalla (48) who is the creative head at a radio firm and private company employees Damanjeet Sodhi (43), Shashank Jain (32), Himanshu Jain (34) and Arjun Arora (58).
DCP (South district) Benita Mary Jaiker stated that the police teams seized 1,000 playing chips, 37 playing bricks and Rs 1, 95,000 cash stake money. The accused who were running a gambling den to lead a lavish life and to earn easy money.
During investigation, the Bindals disclosed that they started running the casino in April this year and also gave protection money to the local police.
The police added that they confessed to giving Rs. 1.5 lakhs as protection money to police to keep their alleged illegal activities on in the casino.
The senior officials have now tightened the nose around the policeman’s name that cropped who is alleged to have ben accepting the protection money from the accused.
The accused have been booked under section 3 (penalty for owning/keeping gaming house) and section 4 (penalty for being found in gaming house) of the Delhi Gambling Act.
