Police say that there is a delay of a few seconds when the live broadcast is broadcast on television or online, and that they place bets during that gap before the live information about each ball is available.
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Spectators sitting on the parapets of the ongoing Nepal Premier League (NPL) at the Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground are enjoying the game.
Some stand there and dance to the best of their team, some boo wildly. But on Saturday, a different scene was seen in one corner of the parapet.
Some people were paying more attention to their mobile phones than the game. After seeing them continuously scrolling through their mobile phones for an hour and a half, a plainclothes police team started monitoring. "Our team was alerted from the beginning that betting might be taking place, and we started looking into it after seeing suspicious activity," says an officer of the Valley Crime Investigation Office. "The team monitored them for some more time, then we took them into custody as soon as the game ended after it was almost certain that they were involved in betting."
According to the office's spokesperson, Kazi Kumar Acharya, those arrested are Raja Yadula, 31, Mahesh Babu, 35, Pandit Srinivasulu, 30, Sheikh Shoyab, 20, Mohammed Rafi Sheikh, 32, Soi Kumar Tammisetti, 19, and Sheikhchand Basal, 28, all from Andhra Pradesh, India.
Acharya says that during the investigation of the 15 mobile phones recovered from them, it was found that they were arranging betting through a betting site called Betakular.live. According to police officers involved in the investigation, they have admitted their involvement in betting even during their statements.
‘There is a delay of a few seconds when the live broadcast of the matches being played in Nepal is on television or online,’ said an officer. ‘They used to place bets before the live information of each ball was available by playing in that gap.’ It has been found that they had come to Kathmandu from India a few days ago for this purpose. It has also been revealed that they are staying together in Samakhusi.
The police had earlier arrested Indian citizen Dilpreet Singh, 28, and Rebika Singh Thakuri, 24, a native of Bardiya but residing in Chandigarh, India, on charges of being involved in betting.
A police team in plain clothes has been deployed to monitor the NPL matches to prevent any untoward incident. The team, under the command of a police inspector, has been continuously sitting on all sides of the spectator stand and keeping an eye on the activities of the spectators.
‘The police are making every effort to ensure that the game is conducted without any problems,’ says Acharya, spokesperson for the Crime Investigation Office of the Upatya, ‘We are working to prevent any untoward activity.’
