Inu00a0a span of less than 24 hours, officers from the Mumbai Police Commissioner's Special Squad conducted raids at three places in the city and busted fuel smuggling and horse race betting rackets. Senior Police Inspector Rakesh Sharma of the Special Squad said 11 people were arrested and oil and cash worth Rs 39.41 lakh was recovered in the raids.

The first raid took place at 6 pm on Saturday, when officers arrested seven people for illegally wagering on horse races at a betting den in Malad. The raid was conducted at the Real Western Indian Trophy Club at Sainath Patel Shopping Centre in Malad (West). Rs 41,000 was recovered from the accused and they were handed over to the Malad police for further investigation.

Around 10 pm the same day, Special Squad officers arrested one Abdul Deewan from Kurla for allegedly illegally mixing oil and kerosene for sale in the black market. "We received a tip-off and discovered after the raid that Deewan and two of his absconding accomplices have been mixing the fuels in a godown near Kalina Service Road since the past six years," said Sharma.The police recovered 100 drums of fuel worth Rs 15 lakh from the godown. Deewan was handed over to the Kurla police.

Then, around 1 am on Sunday, officers from the squad conducted a raid at RA Kidwai Marg and arrested two drivers and a cleaner of an oil company for robbing oil from tankers and transporting it for sale in the black market. Oil worth Rs 20 lakh was recovered in the raid. Sharma said the trio had modified the company's tanker to fool the authorities about the amount of oil that could be contained in the vehicle. A cavity was made in the tanker to store the excess oil, which was later sold cheaply in the black market.