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Tamil Nadu
By Our Staff Reporter
Following reports about clandestine sale of lottery tickets smuggled from Kerala, the City Police conducted surprise checks. The police had a tip-off that such smuggled tickets were largely sold on platforms and in petty shops. To curb the sale of the banned lottery tickets and to prevent hundreds of families (mainly daily wage earners) falling prey to this clandestine trade, the City Police Commissioner, Sanjay Arora, and the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), R. Asokan, ordered for constitution of special police teams. The teams led by the Inspector, M. Baskaran of Big Bazar Police limits, under the direct supervision of the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Soundarrajan, kept the noted lottery vendors and their movements under surveillance. Jewellery workers, head load workers, market vendors, construction workers, auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers were mostly in the practice of spending most of their daily earnings on lotteries, the police said. After a week-long shadow watch, the Big Bazar Police found that the lottery tickets were being sourced from places such as Vezhandavazham, Walayar, Kanzhikode and Palakkad in Kerala. Today, the teams intercepted a lottery vendor, Chandramohan (32) of the Flower Market area near the Karumbukkadai checkpost, and found him to be in possession of nearly 1,000 lottery tickets of various northern and north-eastern States. On interrogation, the vendor had confessed that he used to buy them at a throwaway price of 100 tickets at the rate of Rs. 52 and used to sell them at the rate of Rs. 10 for 15 tickets. He used to sell them to habitual lottery ticket buyers who were almost addicted to this. It was learnt that the vendor used to lure the buyers stating that there were even prizes for the last two and three digits and had made quick money, the police said. The police have registered a case against him under Sections 5 and 7 of the Lottery Regulation Act and under Section 294 A of IPC for selling lottery tickets, which are banned in the State.
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