Similarly, the Ilaka Police Office earlier arrested two people from local Beltar Bazaar on the same charge. Police confiscated the dice, cards and cash from them.
All of them have been kept at the APF security base camp at Beltar for interrogation.
Reports of widespread gambling taking place in discreet have been received from different places of the town despite the police warning to the people not to indulge in gambling during the Tihar festival.
17 people arrested in Kathmandu on charge of gambling