Jammu : Three people were arrested for allegedly running a betting racket in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, police said on Monday.
The arrested, identified as Varinder Kumar, his assistant Rohit Kumar and Rajinder Kumar, were arrested on Sunday when they were accepting bets on a cricket match, they said. Mobile phones, notebooks with records of recent bets and Rs 30,000 cash were seized, Udhampur Senior Superintendent of Police Rayees Mohammad Bhat said. On primary interrogation, Varinder revealed that Raju and other bookies used to accept bets on cricket matches, including of the IPL, and pass on the information to top bookies in Mumbai, the SSP said.