Fourteen persons have been arrested for gambling from different places, police said.
They have been identified as Meherpal, Deepchand, Suraj and Vijay (residents of Gandhi Colony), Surendra, Chandrapal, Madan Lal and Ved Prakash (residents of SGM Nagar), Rampal, Meherchand, Parshuram, Charti Mandal, Ved Prakash and Mahendra Tavenia (residents of Sector 9), they said.
Rs 51,000 cash has been seized from the accused, police said, adding, a case under relevant sections of the Public Gambling Act has been registered against the accused.
The jail's deputy superintendent had lodged a complaint in this connection on Friday stating that during a surprise inspection, a mobile phone and a sim card was found with jail inmate Haridas, resident of Machargaon, they said.