Kathmandu. A special team of Lumbini Province Police Office Tulsipur Dang has raided Royal Kalinga Casino at Bhairawa in Rupandehi and arrested 6 people. Under the direction of Lumbini Province Police Office Chief Deputy Inspector General DIG Bhupendra Bahadur Khatri, a special team of the same office raided the casino and arrested five gamblers and the pit manager of the said casino and handed them over to the local district police office Rupandehi.

The pit manager who was arrested and handed over to the District Police Office Rupandehi is an Indian citizen Paras Bhatia. 25-year-old Bhatia's permanent address is Faridabad in Haryana state of India. Similarly, among the Nepalis who were caught while playing gambling are 48-year-old Narayan Gharti of Myagdi, Beni Municipality-7, Beni Bazar, 47-year-old Roshan KC of Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality-15 of Kaski and 39-year-old Sudeep Acharya of the same sub-metropolitan municipality-17 Birouta.

Similarly, 46-year-old Ramu Shrestha of Nepalgunj Road, Butwal sub-metropolitan city-6 of Rupandehi and 36-year-old Chandra Prasad Shrestha of the same sub-metropolitan city-3 Seemanagar were also arrested and handed over to the district police office, the police informed.