26 people arrested for gambling in Sarlahi, around Rs 10 lakh recovered <\/strong><\/p>\n Bishwanath Thakur, Nepal News Bank<\/p>\n Sarlahi. Police have arrested 26 people for gambling and playing cards in Sarlahi. On the night of Diwali, the police arrested nine people from Malangawa-8 and 17 people from Brahmapuri Rural Municipality with Rs 1 million in cash. <\/p>\n Police confiscated Rs 949,985 in Nepali cash, Rs 31,050 along with cards, mobile phones and other gambling materials from them. According to the District Police Office, Sarlahi, they were arrested in separate raids based on secret information at different places of Malangawa Municipality and Brahmapuri Rural Municipality. Nine people were arrested during a raid at the house of Bhagnarayan Chaudhary in Malangawa Municipality-8 based on a tip-off, said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Bed Prasad Gautam, spokesperson of Sarlahi Police. Those arrested include residents of Malangawa Municipality, Godaita Municipality and Sonbarsha of India. Police confiscated Rs 630,160 in Nepali currency notes, Rs 30,250 in Indian currency notes, three books of cards and 25 mobile phones from the premises. Likewise, police raided the poultry farm of Dhanesh Sah at Brahmapuri Rural Municipality-2 and arrested 17 people on the charge of gambling. Police confiscated Rs 115,895 in Nepali, Rs 600 in Indian cash, Rs 130,<\/p>\n 000 from the poultry farm and three books of cards. <\/p>\n Likewise, police confiscated Rs 203,<\/p>\n 930 in Nepali, Rs 200 in Indian cash, six dice, various card games and card books from the house of Santosh Sah. <\/p>\n Sarlahi Police Spokesperson Deputy Superintendent of Police Gautam said that necessary legal process has been initiated against the arrestees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 26 people arrested for gambling in Sarlahi, around Rs 10 lakh recovered Bishwanath Thakur, Nepal News Bank Sarlahi. Police have arrested 26 people for gambling and playing cards in Sarlahi. On the night of Diwali, the police arrested nine people from Malangawa-8 and 17 people from Brahmapuri Rural Municipality with Rs 1 million in cash.Continue reading “26 gamblers arrested in Sarlahi”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":127159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_a51e1469.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127170,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127169\/revisions\/127170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/127159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}