By Asik Banerjee

Incidents of gambling at homes in the city seem to be on the rise. Vejalpur police raided a house in Shrinandnagar-3 in the wee hours of Sunday and booked 13 persons for involvement in gambling activity.

This is for the second time in two days that such activities were reported at residences.

They immediately went and raided the house. They found seven persons, including Kayastha (32), engrossed in the game. Upon looking further, they found six other persons gambling in another room.

The cops booked all the 13 and seized Rs 1.22 lakh in cash and other items from them. Besides Kayastha, the others who were booked were identified as Varun Jadhav (36), resident of Parishar phase 2 in Khokhra, Mitesh Bhatt and Anirudh Vaghela (both 32) and Prakash Shrimali (36), residents of Vejalpur, Dhaval Patel (26) and Prerak Shah (33), residents of Shrinandnagar-3, Gota residents Virat Patel (25) and Vishal Patel (33), Paldi resident Saumil Shah (32), Makarba resident Akash Bharvad (24) and Nikul Bharvad (27) and Shrinandnagar-1 resident Ramsundar Yadav (45).

They were all booked under the Gambling Act.

Early on Friday, Bopal police had booked six persons found gambling at a house in Sun City in the South Bopal area of Ahmedabad.

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