Thursday, January 5, 2012

3 held for smuggling 17.55 lakh Sikkim lottery tickets; involvement of ‘others’ suspected


GANGTOK, 04 Jan: A staggering 17.55 lakh Sikkim lottery tickets, worth Rs. 35.10 lakh were seized by cops from Coimbatore airport on Tuesday evening, media reports inform. Three persons have been taken into custody on charges of smuggling these lottery tickets into Coimbatore in western Tamil Nadu bordering Kerala [where Sikkim Lotteries were banned w.e.f. 02 Jan 2012]. Media reports also suggest that the lotteries had been smuggled out of Sikkim.

The arrested trio were nabbed as they exited the Coimbatore airport and loaded the lottery tickets [stacked in 11 gunny bags] into two taxis, it is learnt.
Media reports also quote the Coimbatore Police Commissioner as stating that the lottery tickets were printed in Sikkim and sent to Kolkatta by flight. From Kolkatta, the tickets were transferred to Delhi by flight. From the capital, the bundles were smuggled to Coimbatore airport on Tuesday evening on a spice jet flight. These bundles had been checked in as “printed materials”, it is learnt. There is obviously a misquote or over-interpretation here, since Sikkim does not have printing presses with the capacity to print lottery tickets.

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