Saturday 14 December 2019

The Indian Satta King: Rattan Khatri

The era of Satta Matka never seems to end. From the pre-independence days, till now, Satta has etched into a lot of people’s heart! With its ever so growing popularity even in today’s digital world, Satta matka never seems to grow old.

But, how many of you are actually familiar with its story?
Well, not a lot. Did you know, Satta Matka, started in the year 1960 when people started placing bets on the opening and closing rates of cotton that was being transmitted from Bombay cotton exchange to New York cotton exchange? People would bet on their lucky numbers and test their luck in matka. Slowly and steadily this practice became popular all over. With its growing popularity more and more people got associated with it and matka grew as a full-fledged business.

With matka exponentially gaining its popularity, many people tried mastering at this game, but a very few people succeeded at it. One of them being Rattan Khatri. Rattan Khatri was known as the Indian Satta King back then.

The Indian Satta King: Rattan Khatri, gave an altogether different meaning to Satta Matka. When the bets on cotton rates were banned, this man was the person who started the idea of declaring the opening and closing rates of imaginary products. He would write numbers from 0-9 on a piece of paper, and then put them into an earthen pot, and then a chit would be drawn from that pot and the winning number would be declared.  Over the years, the practice was modified and the numbers were rather drawn out from a deck of cards. It was this Indian Satta King who introduced the Worli Matka in 1964.

Indian Satta King came into existence from the Dhanji Street in Mumbai Devi, where Khatri started his business. Gradually this business grew and Dhanji Street became a hub for placing bets. When the craze for satta increased amongst people, the number of people placing bets also increased, and this is when the indian satta king Rattan Khatri decided on starting his own syndicate. In this, three cards were drawn instead of one and results were declared in front of people.

Rattan Khatri controlled a nationwide business from the 1960s to the mid-1990s, and generated an abundance of revenue out of it, hence, for his sincere efforts and dedication to satta, Ratan Khatri is called the Indian Satta King. He was not just a person who introduced Satta to many, but also, helped many people to earn that extra cash. Not only this but due to the fairness he bought to the game, people trusted to play with him, which made him the man he is called today, the Indian Satta King.

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