Authorities in India may charge a notorious illegal online sports betting operator with belonging to organized crime groups in what could prove a test case for future prosecutions.

Earlier this week, authorities in Thane, a district of the state of Maharashtra, arrested Sonu Yogendra Jalan, considered to be India’s biggest illegal cricket bookmaker. Jalan (pictured) is accused of providing online betting software to a ring of bookmakers that the authorities broke up two weeks ago,

On Thursday, the Times of India reported that the Thane authorities were contemplating charging Jalan under the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) 1999, which would be the first time the Act was applied to an illegal betting case.

Jalan has been arrested on multiple occasions since 2012, and a scan of the computers and phones seized in this month’s raids revealed that Jalan was in contact with over 100 illegal bookies. A senior police officer told the Times that invoking MCOCA was necessary to deal with “habitual offenders” like Jalan.