The Special Operations Teams (SOT) of Medchal, along with the Medchal police, caught 14 people on Sunday for gambling at a flat in Kandlakoya Teachers colony.
Officials seized ₹53,510 in cash along with 13 mobile phones and 36 sets of playing cards from them.
“We raided the place based on a tip-off and found that 40-year-old Pegineni Rajesh, a senior scientist working for a firm specialising in seeds, was organising the gambling ring by charging ₹1,000 per head from the punters,” said the official.
The gang, along with the seized items, were handed over to the Medchal police for further investigation.
