The accused, Mohamed Ismail Babu, was allegedly manufacturing and modifying gambling cards by installing chips and supplying them to gambling organisers across the State.
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The Central Crime Branch (CCB) has busted a racket allegedly involved in installing electronic chips in gambling cards to manipulate games and cheat players, and detained a man from R.T. Nagar.
The accused, Mohamed Ismail Babu, was allegedly manufacturing and modifying gambling cards by installing chips and supplying them to gambling organisers across the State.
According to a complaint filed by Mahadevaiah S., Police Inspector, CCB Special Enquiry Wing, the CCB received credible information that Ismail and his associates were operating from a house in R.T. Nagar police limits.
The CCB team found that the accused had stored equipment used to modify the playing cards. The cards were then allegedly supplied to organisers conducting gambling activities, with the purpose of manipulating the outcome of games and cheating members of the public.
Investigators suspect that the accused was part of an organised network that supplied these modified cards to gambling operators, who used them to lure people into gambling and make illegal profits.
The police are now probing the network, including the source of the digital equipment, the persons who purchased the modified cards, and the gambling organisers who allegedly used them.
Published – August 10, 2026 06:50 pm IST
