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Chhatarpur, 15 November (HS). Police took major action and arrested 18 gamblers who were gambling in a hotel on the intervening night of Thursday-Friday at Saransh Hotel in Khajuraho, a famous tourist destination located in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh. It has been told that gamblers from Uttar Pradesh and Chhatarpur district were betting on winning or losing by reaching the hotel in luxury vehicles, when the police conducted a raid and seized goods worth Rs 1 crore along with cash worth Rs 20 lakh.
Disclosing the matter on Friday, Naugaon SDOP Chanchalesh Markam said that on Thursday night, information was received from the informer that gambling was being played on a large scale in Saransh Hotel of Khajuraho. The police team reached the hotel in disguise and surrounded it and carried out the operation. During this period, four luxury cars – two Toyota Innova, Hyundai, Venue and 13 mobile phones of Apple, Samsung OnePlus, goods worth Rs 1 crore including Rs 20 lakh in cash were seized and 18 gamblers who were gambling were arrested.
He told that among the arrested gamblers, Farukh Khan alias Veeru Pathan son of Jamaluddin resident of Vidyadhar Colony Khajuraho district Chhatarpur, Arvind Gupta son of Dharamraj resident of Padri Sumerpur district Hamirpur, Satyendra Singh son of Sukhdev resident of Pachkhura district Hamirpur, Mukesh Rajak son of Kishanlal resident of Garhi Malhara district Chhatarpur, Satyam Sharma son of Rambabu resident of Sikandra district Kanpur, Puran Kumar Pandey son of mother Prasad resident of Auraiya, Shailendra Purohit son of Harnarayan resident of Mahoba, Harishankar Chaurasia son of Brij Gopal resident of Sattipura Mohalla Mahoba. Mohammad Haleem son of Abdul Qayyum resident of Barigarh district Chhatarpur, Durg Vijay Yadav son of Pradumna Yadav resident of Yashoda Nagar Mahoba, Jagdish Verma son of Kailash Chandra resident of Srinagar district Mahoba, Pinku son of Zafar Hussain resident of Chitepura Charkhari district Mahoba, Mohammad Naseem son of Noor Mohammad Manzoor Nagar Khajuraho, Chhatrapal Yadav son of Swamidin Yadav resident of Gandhinagar Mahoba, Pawan Kumar son of Ram Manohar resident of Bharua. Sumerpur district Hamirpur, Balkaran son of Brahma Prasad Verma resident of Mawaijar district Hamirpur, Harshvardhan Gupta son of Mahesh resident of Srinagar district Mahoba, Basant Kumar Lodhi son of Mayadin resident of Charkhari district Mahoba.
He said that the gamblers have been taken into custody and action is being taken by registering the crime under the Gambling Act at Khajuraho police station. In the said action, under the leadership and guidance of SDOP Naugaon Chanchalesh Markam, police team including station in-charge Harpalpur Inspector Pushpak Sharma, station in-charge Khajuraho sub-inspector Atul Dixit etc. played the main role.