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Mumbai: The CBI has booked seven suspected punters in connection with two separate cases related to alleged fixing of matches in IPL 2019 "based on inputs" from Pakistan, officials said on Saturday. The central agency has started a country-wide probe and was carrying out searches at seven locations in Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Jodhpur, they said. The agency received inputs that "a network of individuals involved in cricket betting are influencing the outcome of Indian Premer League (IPL) matches based on inputs received from Pakistan", the FIRs alleged. The CBI has named one Dileep Kumar, based in Rohini, Delhi, and Gurram Vasu and Gurram Satish based in Hyderabad in its first FIR as accused while Sajjan Singh, Prabhu Lal Meena, Ram Avtar and Amit Kumar Sharma, all from Rajasthan, have been named in the second. The racket allegedly operating from Rajasthan is continuing since 2010 while another is on since 2013, they said. The networks operating on the basis of inputs from Pakistan were also cheating the public by "inducing them for betting", they said. The racketeers have bank accounts (mule accounts) using fake identities and know your customer (KYC)documents in connivance with the unknown bank officials, they said. "These bank accounts have been opened by submitting forged details such as multiple dates of birth and without due diligence done by the bank officials. "A part of the money received from the general public in India on account of such betting activities is also being shared with their associates based in foreign countries using hawala transactions," the FIRs alleged. The CBI has found that Dileep was operating a number of bank accounts in which domestic cash deposits worth over Rs 43 lakh have been made since ...