Police Raid on Gambling Den: Prominent Persons Arrested
posted on Jul 6, 2012 @ 1:35PM
The Banjara Hills police in Hyderabad conducted a surprise raid on an apartment in Film Nagar and arrested several prominent persons, who were playing cards. The arrested persons include D Ravindar, the brother of Minister Danam Nagendar and a TDP leader M Ravindranath Reddy alias BTech Ravi, who had contested and lost against smt. YS Vijayalaxmi from Pulivendula assembly constitution in 2009.
The police, acting on a tip-off, raided the place around 8 pm on Thursday. The cops caught 26 people red-handed while playing cards using cash and seized an amount of 21.88 lakhs and 28 cellphones from them. Cases of gambling have been booked against them and they will produced in the court today.