Arbaaz Khan admits to having placed bets on IPL matches, lost Rs 2.75 cr

Mumbai, June 2
Actor and film producer Arbaaz Khan on Saturday told the police that he had lost more than Rs 2.75 crore in betting on IPL matches, according to sources here.

Thane Police’s anti extortion cell summoned Khan on Saturday morning over his links with bookie Sonu Jalan, who was arrested last month.

Police sources said Khan was ‘confronted’ with Jalan where the two were questioned about entries found in the bookies diaries. During the four-hour long questioning Khan said he had lost more than Rs 2.75 crore betting in various IPL matches in 2017, sources said. The actor-producer also confessed to becoming addicted to betting on outcomes at various sports has been doing this for more than five years, Thane police officials said.

Khan is said to have told police that he did not bet on this year’s version of IPL.

Earlier, the Thane police released photographs of Jalan with Khan and other people at a party to establish their links.

While leaving the premises of the Thane police this afternoon Khan said he was fully co-operating with the police and would present himself before them if required.

Police said, the dairies seized from Jalan contained the names of other prominent persons apart from Khan and those people would also be summoned for questioning. Apart from Khan, the names of some builders and contractors have also been found in Jalan’s possession, Abhishek Trimukhe, DCP (Crime), Thane said.

He added that a call line holding machine has been recovered from Jalan. The machine had several telephone numbers in its memory card and efforts were on to trace their owners, Trimukhe said.