Four nabbed on gambling charge

Ludhiana, October 24

The CIA wing of the Jagraon police yesterday nabbed four persons on the charges of gambling and for running an illegal lottery racket in separate cases. Cases under the Gambling Act were registered in both incidents.

In the first incident, the police nabbed Hansraj, alias Hansa, and Jaswant Singh, alias Santa, both residents of Kothe Khajure, Jagraon.

ASI Randhir Singh said a tip-off was received that the accused were running illegal lottery. The police laid a trap and nabbed the accused red-handed. In the other case, the police nabbed Karamjit Singh, alias Bittu, and Kulbhushan Kumar of Jagraon red- handed when they were asking people to invest in ‘darra satta’ (illegal lottery) and were promising handsome returns. — TNS

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