8 Arrested in Goa Raid on Online Gambling Shop

Goa police arrested eight people in a raid on a suspected online gambling d༒en on Saturday.

A shop at Kolvalkar Plaza was the target and police said in an official release that articles worth Rs. 6.4 lakh﷽🐎s had been seized.

Br💞others Ajay and Akshay Karjol have been arrested for conducting online gambling activities, with the other six detained for engaging in illegal 🍌activities. The investigation is ongoing.

No furthღer information was for🔯thcoming from the police, and there was no indication of what type of online gambling was allegedly taking place.

The photo th🌳e Goa police put out led to much ridicule on socialও media, with many joking about the apparent use of plastic bags with holes in them to mask the suspect's identity.

If Batman had Goaꦰ Polic🍃e helping him, he wouldn't have had so much trouble dealing with Scarecrow..

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By law, the penalty fꦫor being caught gambling online has been a fine of Rs.90,000 per day since 2009, but this is rare𝕴ly enforced.

Periodic police action against underground gambling establishments and bookmakers is nothing new. In May 2019, Jaipur police arrested two betting kingpins who it was alleged had taken Rs. 3,000 crores of bets during the start of 𒁏the IPL season