This post collects dated police reports from Delhi and the NCR towns whose names appear on satta charts: Ghaziabad, Noida and Faridabad. For the overall legal position, read our guide Is Satta King legal in India?. Headlines such as सट्टा किंग गिरफ्तार ("Satta King arrested") usually describe an alleged operator or collector, not someone checking results. We name no accused person; most of these cases have not been tried.
Laws police use
- Delhi: Delhi Public Gambling Act, 1955. A "common gaming-house" includes a place used for gaming "on any figures or numbers or dates to be subsequently ascertained or disclosed", which describes number satta such as Gali and Desawar. Keeping one carries up to 6 months and/or ₹1,000 (s.3); being found in one, up to 3 months and/or ₹500 (s.4); gaming in a public street, up to 3 months and/or ₹1,000 (s.12).
- Ghaziabad and Noida: Public Gambling Act, 1867, as amended by Uttar Pradesh. UP's version expressly treats "satta papers" (documents recording bets) as instruments of gaming. In 2025 the Allahabad High Court held in Kamran v. State of U.P. that the street-gaming offence (s.13) is cognizable, so police can act without a magistrate's prior permission. In May 2025 the same court called the 1867 Act outdated for online betting (Imran Khan v. State of U.P., 2025:AHC:78538). UP has not yet passed a new law.
- Faridabad: Haryana Prevention of Public Gambling Act, 2025. It replaced the 1867 Act in Haryana and was in force by notification dated 21 May 2025. It covers betting "by means of electronic communication" and punishes membership of an "organized gambling syndicate" with 3 to 5 years and a ₹5 lakh fine. Our post on Haryana's 2025 gambling law covers it.
- Everywhere: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, section 112. Unauthorised betting or gambling committed by a member of a group or gang is "petty organised crime", punishable with 1 to 7 years and a fine. See BNS s.112 explained.
- Online: online money games, and advertising and payments for them, have been banned since 1 May 2026 under the Online Gaming Act 2025.
Dated case log
| Date | Place | What police said | Law reported |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Feb 2017 | Shahdara, Delhi | A report described the local satta trade as organised and run for decades through managed gambling dens. Police linked the dens to a rise in street crime and used decoy customers to reach closed online games. | Not stated |
| 29 Oct 2018 | Kaila Khera, Ghaziabad | Vijay Nagar police and the Crime Branch raided a house and arrested 14 people. They seized 15 phones, 3 diaries, betting slips and ₹16,890. Police said the group moved often to avoid detection. | Not stated |
| 17 Jan 2022 | Delhi (Crime Branch) | Police arrested the alleged head of a satta syndicate, a proclaimed offender, who they said had run operations while hiding in Himachal Pradesh. | MCOCA (booked in 2015) |
| 26 Feb 2022 | Moradabad, UP (Delhi link) | An alleged operator facing 9 cases was arrested. Police said he collected bets through 10–12 "munshis" (collectors) and placed them on a website said to be run from Delhi. | Not stated |
| 28 Sep 2025 | Delhi Police Special Cell | A man described as Delhi's "Satta King" was arrested at Amritsar airport, allegedly while trying to leave the country. Police allege he ran a large online and offline gambling network. | Not stated |
| 9 Dec 2025 | Noida, UP | Police said two men ran a fake call centre that cold-called people, sold IDs for banned betting apps and moved money through mule accounts. | Not stated |
| 19 May 2026 (report) | Bindapur, Dwarka, Delhi | The Dwarka district Special Staff arrested 14 people gambling in a lane and seized about 350 satta slips, charts, registers, phones and ₹6,810. | Gambling Act ss.12, 9, 55 (FIR 255/2026) |
| 11 Sep 2026 | Nand Nagri, Gokalpuri and Welcome, North-East Delhi | Six people were held in three cases, with betting slips and ₹4,510 in cash. | Delhi Gambling Act ss.12/9/55 (FIR 501/26) and s.12 |
Dates were checked against the article text, not the date shown at the top of the web page, which on some Hindi news sites is the viewing date. "Not stated" means the report did not name the law. We found no dated Faridabad satta case in the sources we reviewed.
Patterns in the cases
- Paper still matters. The street-level Delhi and Ghaziabad cases describe slips, diaries, registers and charts, with small sums of cash.
- Collectors. Operators allegedly rely on "munshis" or agents who gather bets and pass them up the chain (Moradabad, 2022).
- Phones and chat groups. Many seizures are mostly phones. Elsewhere in India, police have described satta run through WhatsApp groups, and the Noida case used cold calls.
- Mule accounts. Online operations move money through accounts rented from other people (Noida, 2025). Our post on the mule account trap explains the risk to account holders.
- "Satta King" as a label for operators. In these reports the title goes to the alleged operator. That is also how many people meet the phrase in searches such as "Delhi satta king" or "Gali satta king".
What the cases do not show
Every case we found targets operators, collectors, people gambling at the scene, or payment chains. We found no reported prosecution of a website that only publishes declared results, or of someone only viewing them. Results sites have mainly been affected by blocking orders; see how India blocks betting sites. This is not legal advice, and the law differs by state.
Our pages for Gali, Ghaziabad and Faridabad carry the declared results and record charts only. We do not take bets, share numbers or work with any operator.