KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Feb 3: Acting on a tip-off, a team of police officials nabbed a 60-year-old man while selling a lottery ticket at Baharagora in the Ghatsila sub-division of the district.
Identified as Krishna Arjun Ray, the accused was nabbed with lottery tickets of Bengal and Nagaland state lotteries and also sales proceeds.
According to police, Ray who is a resident of Baharagora used to lure docile people into buying lottery tickets, claiming that if luck favours one can become a man of a million in a day.
“As the information about Ray’s activity reached the police, the Ghatsila sub-divisional police officer was apprised of the matter. It was after the SDPO instructed the Baharagora thana that a team was set up for the arrest of the accused,” said Baharagora thana OC, Santan Kumar Tiwari while talking to lagatar24.com.
Tiwari said Ray is a habitual lottery ticket seller despite the fact that the sale of lottery tickets is banned in Jharkhand. He pointed out the accused was earlier arrested for running the racket in Baharagora in September last.
Earlier, the police had arrested a lottery agent from Galudih in the Ghatsila sub-division in January, leading the racket to stop at Galudih and the adjoining Ghatsila townships, but it is still running at places like Mosaboni and Jadugora of the sub-division clandestinely.
