03/08/2025
PRESS NOTE
BUSTED INTERSTATE HORSE BETTING RACKET BY SOT MALKAJGIRI TEAM
ALONG WITH JAWAHAR NAGAR L&OPOLICE AND SEIZED CASH OF RS.
2,00,000/- AND ALSO FREEZED BANK ACCOUNTS HAVING AN AMOUNT OF
RS.2,47,000/ WHICH WAS CREDITED FOR THE PURPOSE OF BETTING ALL
WORTH RS 4,47,000/-
In a Joint operation, the sleuths of the Special Operations Team
(SOT), Malkajgiri along with Jawahar Nagar Law & Order Police, have the year 2020, due to recession and personal health emergency he got
shifted to Hyderabad and acquainted with two persons by namely one
M. Rajesh Kumar, r/o Malakpet, Hyderabad and Venkat Chowdary of
Vijayawada of AP State with help of them he started Horse Betting. Later
he separated from them and himself started organizing Horse Betting by
staying in various rented houses in Hyderabad. In the year 2024 he got
shifted to Tirumala Enclave, Dammaiguda and started organizing
gaming house of horse betting by creating a whatsapp group by the
name “SHINEWELL ENTERPRISES” and added 105 members from all over
the country including 20 members of twin cities.
The accused organized gaming house and ran illegal horse betting
by luring the innocent victims to invest and promised to pay high returns
to the members. A total Rs. 8,34,50,749/- of transactions were found in
the bank accounts of the accused pertaining to this illegal horse betting.
The accused has made the innocent victims to addict to the social vice
horse betting.
Appeal to the Public: The Police Rachakonda hereby appeals to all the
public/Society not to involve in betting activities which will ruin their lives
and land them in debts. It is requested to inform Police about the illegal
activities taking place in their area and feel the responsibility of building
a healthy society.
Caution: It is also instructed to all the public at large and be aware of
that betting in any means is a crime and punishable with imprisonment
and also liable for Fine.
The above arrests were made under the direct supervision of Shri G.
Sudheer Babu, IPS., Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda and the under
guidance of Smt. P.V. Padmaja Reddy, IPS., DCP Malkajgiri, Shri A.
Ramana Reddy, DCP, SOT-I Malkajgiri & Bhongiri, Shri N.Narsimha Reddy
ADCP SOT-I, Shri C.Anjaiah ACP SOT-I, the following Inspector G. Janaiah,
SIP M. Sai Kumar, and team of SOT, Malkajgiri Zone, Sri S. Saidaiah,
Inspector Jawahar Nagar Police Station done the investigation process.
Public Relations Officer
Rachakonda Police Commissionerate.
successfully apprehended (04) Persons 1)ThokalaNagesh, 2)
BorraVenkaiahChowdhary, 3) Challa Ramesh Babu, 4) D Sunil who are
indulging in illegalhorse betting gaming.
CR. NO. 876/2025 U/S. 318(4) BNS & SEC. 344 TS GAMING ACT OF
JAWAHAR NAGAR POLICE STATION.
The details of the accused persons:-
1 : Thokala Nagesh S/o T. Ramaiah, Age: 45 yrs, Occ: Pvt Job,
R/o Plot No: 15, Tirumala Enclave, Phase-II, Dammaiaguda.
(Bookie)
2 M. Rajesh Kumar r/o Malakpet Hyderabad (Not available for
examination) (Bookie)
3 Venkat Chowdary r/o Vijayawada of AP State (Not available
for examination) (Bookie)
4 : Borra Venkaiah Chowdary S/o B. Babu Rao, Age: 45 yrs, Occ:
Business, R/o Plot No: 512, Jewel Town Apts, Puppalguda,
Manikonda. (Punter)
5 : Challa Ramesh Babu S/o Ch. Kutumba Rao, Age: 48 yrs, Occ:
Auto Dirver, R/o Plot No: 409, Krishna Nagar Colony, HB
Colony. (Punter)
6 : D Sunil S/o Late D.S Ravindra, Age: 55 yrs, Occ: Employee, R/o
Flat No: 02, Opp Shiva Residency, Chandragiri Colony,
Safilguda. (Punter)
Seized Property:-
1. Cash of Rs. 2,00,000/-
2. Mobile Phones- (01)
3. Freezed Amount of Rs. 2,47,000/- in two accounts, One in Axis Bank
and other in IndusInd Bank.
Brief Facts:-
The accused person Nagesh, is a native of old Guntur, Andhra
Pradesh state and studied up to Graduation in Mahaveer College,
Nagarjuna University, after completion of his studies he worked for
Hewlett Packard (HP) Company at Chennai and while he was staying in
Chennai, he got attracted to Horse Betting and later got addicted. In