Acting on a tip-off, the Lonavla police on Monday night raided a private residence at Vehergaon village and arrested ten people involved in gambling. Drugs and other goods valued at around ₹74 lakh were seized from their possession.

The accused have been identified as Rahul Ingulkar, Santosh Botre, Mangesh Deshmukh, Sanjay Deshmukh, Dinesh Gaikwad, Chandrakant Devkar, Vinod Nanekar, Ajit Devkar, Mangesh Rane and Santosh Dalavi. Two grammes of Mephedrone (MD) drug worth ₹20,300 was recovered from Dalavi.

The Lonavla Rural Police Station has filed an FIR under Section 5 of the Maharashtra Gambling Act, Sections 8(c),21 (b) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act 1985 against the accused.