8 Arrested in Goa Raid on Online Gambling Shop

Goa police arrested eight people in a raid on♈ a suspected online gambling den on Saturday.

A shop at Kolv💫alkar Plaza was the target and police said in an official release that articles worth Rs. 6.4 lakhs had been seized.

Brothers Ajay and Akshay Karjol have been arrested for conducting online ga෴mbling activities, with the other six detained for engaging in illegal activities. The investigation is ongoing.

No further information was forthcoming from the police, and there was no indication of♋ what type of online gℱambling was allegedly taking place.

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

If Batman had Goa Police hel❀ping him, he wouldn't have had so mucౠh trouble dealing with Scarecrow..

— KrakenX94 (@YearOfTheKraken)

By law, the penalty for being caught gambling online has been a fine o𒉰f Rs.90,000 per day since 2009, but this is rarely 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 alleไged had taken Rs. 3,000 crores of 🍸bets during the start of the IPL season