bhopal city police on saturday busted an online betting racket which placed bets on indian premiere league ipl matches operated from the state capital and recovered rs 116 crore and arrested seven peoplepolice said the accused were operating betting racket online and used their hawala connections to transfer the money in cash income tax officials were also called in to investigate the money trailthe seized documents include betting record running into hundreds of crore rupees from them police teams raided seven different spots in the city and the investigation was under process till the filing of reportthe racket was operated in association with dubaibased operators using 45 online websites and mobile applications a dubaibased operator was said to be the brotherinlaw of the one of the arrested accuseddig bhopal irshad wali said around police received an intelligence about a betting racket being operated in the city through online websites and mobile apps a fortnight ago acting on the information nine teams including cops from crime branch and city police stations were formed and they kept a tab on suspectson saturday the teams received vital information about the racket and subsequently raids were planned he said that police raided seven spots simultaneously in the afternoon when the cash recovery passed rs 50 lakh mark the income tax officials were called in to investigate the money trailasp zone i akhil patel said the accused arrested were identified as a restaurant chain owner naresh hemdani a resident of netaji hills colony in kolar bharat soni who runs an event management company and tent house in housing board colony habibganj sanjeet singh chawla who runs a mobile phone shop at prem kothi chhola road chetan wadhwani a resident of vinayak homes at vardhman green park ashoka garden who runs a garment shop in bairagarh jaspal singh a resident of idgah hills jay prakash meghani a resident of idgah hills manohar lal talreja who runs an office at western plaza in chunabhattipolice recovered rs 56 lakh in cash four mobile phones and a computer from nareshs house in kolar similarly rs 11 lakh and two mobile phones were recovered from sanjeets shop while rs 2922 lakh cash was recovered from bharat sonis office the cops also recovered rs 591 lakh from chetans house along with ten mobile phones four computers one laptop and a pen drive with ipl betting detailssimilarly from jaspals house the cops found rs 57 lakh cash along with two laptops and a diary having record of cash rs 559 lakh four mobile phones and a notepad were recovered from jayprakashs house and from manohars house the cops recovered rs 23 lakh cash two mobile phones five liquor bottles diaries and slips of ipl betting recordpatel said sanjeet and jaspal were brothers and jointlyowned the mobile phone business he said that nareshs brotherinlaw girish talreja who resides in dubai operated the online betting racket with his accomplices including ankit variyani and ratnesh from therehe said that the accused girish and his two