Ghitorni<\/a>, India village hotel basement. Ghitorni is in the state of Delhi.<\/strong><\/p>\nDuring a search of the property, police seized many rupees worth about $15,000, some 6,000 plastic gambling tokens, and five poker tables, India Today<\/em> said. Police also seized 65 mobile phones, the Hindustan Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\nUnderground Operations<\/h2>\n
Those arrested in Ghitorni included financial traders, industrialists, jewelers, and business executives, authorities told local media outlets. They were recruited by organizers through WhatsApp. Some participants even placed bets through the app, according to India Today<\/em>.<\/p>\nTo keep the operations hidden, the WhatsApp group was private with additional members being added only if they had a personal invite from organizers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nThe locations of the temporary gambling dens kept changing, but recently moved to the unnamed hotel, police said. Until the arrests, organizers were expecting to hold gambling in six different sites.<\/p>\n
In the case of the Ghitorni operation, organizers told participants the approximate location of the gaming party the day before it started, the report said. To maintain secrecy, participants were only given an address near the gambling den, and once there, someone would direct them to the specific gaming site, the Times<\/em> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police raid of India\u2019s Green Park Resort, Talasari — about 83 miles north of Mumbai — led to the apprehension of 23 people on gambling and related charges early Saturday morning. The arrests are part of a continuing crackdown on illegal gambling in the country. During the raid, authorities also seized Rs 73,000 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":142844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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