There is a lot of online betting going on in the World Cup, this game is worth Rs 3 lakh crores!

World Cup 2023: World Cup fever is on everyone's mind. Especially since India defeated Pakistan. Every Indian is hoping that India wins this World Cup. Meanwhile, online betting in World Cup matches has come to light. Indore Police has caught a person in this online betting scam. Let us also tell you how this entire betting game is going on.

Revealing online betting on the ongoing World Cup matches, Indore police have arrested a 40-year-old man and seized cash worth Rs 23 lakh and a gold ingot weighing 1.25 kg from him. A police officer gave this information on Tuesday. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Abhinay Vishwakarma said that the accused arrested on Monday night from Dwarkapuri area during a joint raid conducted with the help of the Anti-Crime Branch of the police has been identified as Vishal Mehta.

Black game is worth more than Rs 3 lakh crore

If you see this whole black game of betting, your mind will wander. According to industry body FICCI, this black game of betting is worth more than Rs 3 lakh crore. According to experts, when the black game of betting is happening at this level then it should be made legal. Let us tell you that cricket betting is legal in countries like Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies. The special thing is that except West Indies, all other countries are playing the World Cup. It is not that the administration is not strict regarding betting in India. During the eighth season of IPL in 2015, ED had busted a racket worth Rs 2000 crore from Ahmedabad branch.

This is how the betting game used to be

In the latest case, according to the police, the accused who has been arrested used to carry out betting in a very vicious manner. This person does online betting from his home. For this he used to take ID and password from a person. This person used to talk to Mehta through WhatsApp voice calls from a mobile number in UAE. Police investigation has found that an online betting gang on World Cup matches is being run in a very organized manner, whose links may be linked to foreign countries. Police suspect that the 1.25 kg gold recovered from Mehta's possession has been smuggled to India from abroad. Now the police is going to give information about this matter to DRI and Income Tax Department.