Coimbatore:
The Tamil Nadu Police have seized Rs 2.25 crore in money and 1,900 lottery tickets from the residence of Nagaraj (42), a cashier at a lottery company in Walayar, Palakkad district.
The raid was performed on the orders of Coimbatore District Superintendent of Police, Ok. Karthikeyan.
Karumathampatti Police carried out the operation as a part of an investigation into the sale of banned lottery tickets in Tamil Nadu.
Over 30 raids have been performed throughout suburban areas of Coimbatore, together with Pollachi, Valparai, Annur, and Karumathampatti.
Eight particular groups have been fashioned to hold out these raids.
Throughout the search of Nagaraj’s residence, the police seized Rs 2 lakh in banned Rs 2,000 foreign money notes.
Authorities revealed that Nagaraj was promoting Kerala authorities lottery tickets illegally within the Tiruppur and Pollachi areas.
Regardless of a statewide ban on the sale of Kerala authorities lottery tickets exterior the state, brokers have been conducting brisk enterprise throughout Tamil Nadu.
These operations usually contain betting on the final digits of the lottery numbers.
The police famous that the sale of unlawful lottery tickets is at an all-time excessive in each city and rural areas of Coimbatore.
Suburban areas, particularly, have grow to be hotspots for these operations. Police sources reported that unlawful operators conduct lotteries a number of occasions a day utilizing outcomes from Kerala and Nagaland lotteries.
Quantity-based lotteries utilizing the final one, three, or 4 digits of official Kerala lottery tickets are sometimes drawn at midday and a couple of p.m.
Equally, lotteries utilizing Nagaland tickets are performed at 12 p.m., 3 p.m., 6 p.m., and eight p.m.
These rackets usually share betting numbers by way of WhatsApp teams, permitting contributors to decide on and pay for numbers.
After the official lottery outcomes are introduced, the rackets declare their very own outcomes and payouts based mostly on the profitable numbers.
In November, the Coimbatore Metropolis Police, in coordination with the Coimbatore Rural Police, performed a crackdown on unlawful lottery operators.
Throughout the operation, authorities seized Rs 45.8 lakh, arrested 27 people, and registered six instances.
The police have recognized a number of high-profile figures related to the unlawful lottery commerce and have vowed to accentuate their crackdown on the unlawful lottery commerce within the state.
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