Former MP D.P.
Former MP D.P. Yadav was on Wednesday arrested by the Delhi police in a MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act) case registered last year in connection with an organised “online betting” racket.
More than a dozen people were arrested after a raid on August 26-27, 2015 at a building in Bhajanpura from where the betting racket was being run.
The former UP minister has been arrested in the case on the alleged charges of accepting protection money from members of the racket that cheated people by luring them to “betting”, the police said.
The arrested persons included Roshan Lal Verma and Amarnath Bajaj, the masterminds of the organised betting syndicate.
Interrogation of Mr Verma and Mr Bajaj had revealed that they were closely associated with the gangster-turned politician, Yadav, and it was he who allegedly had led them into the illegal betting business. The two had disclosed that they used to send '2 lakh per day as protection money allegedly to Yadav and his family members.
Ajit Kumar Singla, DCP (northeast), said Yadav was lodged in a jail in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, in a murder case and they secured his custody on production warrant.
