Task Force sleuths, on Friday, arrested 5 persons for running an illegal gambling racket, and seized Rs. 18,200 in cash and 3 cell phones from them.
According to Additional DCP Task Force M Srinivas, Mohammed Bakhtiar is the kingpin of the racket. He employed Lateef Khan and Mohammed Moinuddin Ansari as his agents who used to collect the gambling (satta) money and hand it over to him.
Another satta gang run, by Kamal Kumar Gupta of Chelapura, was also busted on Friday. Gupta managed to get away from the clutches of the police who managed to nab his 2 agents, Mohammed Sadiq Khan and Mohmmed Chand Khan, both residents of Falaknuma.
Srinivas revealed that the kingpins of the gambling racket used to send money to Mumbai, through the hawala channel, and had even set up a website to enable gamblers to bet online.