Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Police raided Star Hotel Marriott, Lower Tank Bund, some of whom had organized a gambling on the occasion of Diwali on Friday, Following the action on gambling, police arrested 36 persons and seized 23.37 lakh cash, Swipe machine, casino coins, liquor bottles and hookah equipments from the suits. The Officials of the task force said that C. Praveen Kumar, Babulal Agarwal, Sanjay Kumar, J Rakesh and R Nagpal Singh were organizing gambling by booking three suits 7010, 7015 and 7025 at the Hotel Marriott.
These organizers invited interested punters to the Marriot hotel and collected 3,000 rupees for each person to participate in gambling. They had made the best of his guest arrangement, when they picked up; it raises the police’s eyes on the raids. The organizers provided liquor, hookah smoking and other comfortable facilities, Additional Commissioner of Police (Task Force) Shashidhar Raju said, organizers and punters are playing three cards and in the last three days, the organizers through this gambling made the business of Rupees One crore.
According to the police, 10 bottles of Chivas Regal Blond Scotch, 2 bottles of Johnny Walker, one kilogram of Pan Masala, 1,749 plastic casino coins and two casinos were seized from the Room.
At the time of the raid, the police could catch Praveen and Bahulal the other three organizers had gone. The police are investigating whether there is any agreement between the staff of this hotel and the CCTV footage is being investigated, a notice will also be served.
The organizer has been organizing gambling for the last three days, the said gambling organizers have been doing business of Rs. 25 Lakhs to Rs. 30 Lakhs per day. The three rooms, which were booked three days ago, are interconnected to them so that they can accommodate a large number of people. Some punters booked rooms in the same hotel and took shelter, while they are not playing, just to relax.