Commissioner’s Task Force, Central Zone Team along with Madhura Nagar PS staff on Friday busted an international online gaming and satta betting racket which is operating from a rented flat situated at Sri Divya Enclave, under the limits of Madhura Nagar PS and arrested five accused persons.

Arrested persons identified as Sonule Srikanth, Gurle Harish, Gurle Satish Kumar, Sonule Thirupathi and Ade Vinod, all are native of Kagaz Nagar, Kumaram Bheem district. They are common friends and organize the betting through online mode and they supervise the registration process of victims on their gaming sites.

To gain easy money through online gaming and satta and matka betting, three months back on rental basis took a residential flat. For organizing the betting they have created an online betting YouTube channel in the name of Trikal Matka to trap innocent punters who are in the habit of betting on online international gaming, other betting. They collected the amount of Rs 1000 from each punter as registration amount for prediction betting numbers.

The accused persons make fake videos who pose as a punter and create a video so that they win huge betting amounts on low investment with appreciating the betting site and then the fake video shared to the victim thereby cheating the innocent punters and encouraging them to invest high amounts in betting in online International gaming.   

Police have seized three MAC book, which were used to create online gaming websites, one tab, two colour printers, satta and matka betting printing pamphlets, betting charts, 18 mobile phones, net cash Rs 1,55,000 and Bank account betting amount Rs 2,13,697 from them.