Lottery agent arrested in TN

Tiruchirapalli, June 13 (UNI) A prominent lottery agent was today arrested on the charge of 'illegally' selling lottery tickets of other states in Tamil Nadu.

A top police official told UNI that acting on a tip-off, a special team of the Pudukkottai Town police raided the house of 55-year-old agent K A S Ramadoss at Annanagar in Tennur area of the city and arrested him.

Later, Ramadoss was taken to the Pudukottai town police station where the special team interrogated him over his involvement in the illegal sale of lottery tickets of other states in Tamil Nadu through agents.

Police registered cases against Ramadoss under various sections of Lotteries Regulation Act.

The agent, who was produced before a Magistrate's court in Pudukottai, was remanded to 15 days judicial custody.

The police official said Ramadoss, after procuring lottery tickets from Sikkim, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram, used to sell them through agents and traders in Tiruchirapalli, Pudukkottai and other areas at exhorbitant rates.

A hunt was on to nab other agents and traders involved in the illegal sale of lottery tickets, he added.

UNI