Police arrested 10 gamblers with cash, seized three cars
Guwahati, Oct 10 : Police have arrested 10 gamblers with cash, gambling tokens, playing cards and seized three cars, three motorcycles in Assam’s Biswanath district last night.
Based on information, a team of Biswanth district police led by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Muzaffar Hussain had launched operation at Borkura area and arrested 10 gamblers on spot while they were gambling in a room of a bottling plant owned by a person named Ratul Bora.
Police recovered Rs 1 lakh cash, 144 tocken used in gambling, 104 playing cards and mobile phone handsets.
Police also seized three cars, three motocycle.
“We had received an information, gambling was going on at Borkura area and immediately we had launched operation. We had arrested 10 gamblers while they were gambling in a room of a bottling plant. We had recovered Rs 1 lakh cash, 144 tocken, 104 playing cards and also seized three cars, three motorcycle,” DSP Muzaffar Hussain said.
The arrested gamblers were identified as Ratul Bora, Ayodha Gupta, Bhagabanta Boro (Specimen collector of Zoology department of Gauhati University), Salam Ali, Manoj Shah, Rashid Khan, Dwipen Bora (Peon of Assam Gramin Vikash Bank), Abdul Halim, Halimuddin and Kudrat Ali.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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