Assam: Lumding Police Undertakes Operation Against Gamblers

LUMDING: A team from Lumding Police Station carried out an operation in the region and apprehended several people associated with gambling. The Officer In Charge of the Lumding Police Station Chandan Jyoti Bora led this operation.

The operation was carried out on the Lanka Road Tiniali locality of the region. And the gamblers were apprehended red-handed from an under-construction building in the locality.

The identities of the eight gamblers were revealed by the police force. They are Sushata Chakraborty, Muluwa Singh, Pradeep Roy, Bhola Ram, Utpal Pal, Subhash Ghosh, Chickender Singh and Raju Das. The police team was also able to seize Rs 4580 in cash, eight mobile phones and playing cards from the apprehended gamblers.

A case was also registered under the requisite sections of the IPC with Case number 132/2023 in the Lumding Police Station.

Previously, the officials of the forest department of Assam were able to capture one suspected wildlife poacher from the Lumding region of the state. Two country-made guns were also recovered from the possession of the suspect by the forest officials. The incident took place when a team from the forest division came across this suspect during one of their regular rounds in the Lumding reserved forest area. Apart from the guns, live ammunition was also recovered from the suspect. The suspected had reportedly set up a tree house in the forest and was on the lookout to hunt wild animals in the protected area. The identity of the suspect was revealed as one Biki Thapa who is a resident of the Murabasti region of Lumding.

The officials of the department have initiated an investigation into the matter and started interrogating the suspect. It has been suspected that there are multiple people involved in such activities and that Biki Thapa is the only one that has been captured by the officials from a larger gang involved in such illegal activities.

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