Punjab: Councilor along with 10 others arrested for gambling

Punjab: Ten persons including councillor Akshay Dagala were caught red handed while gambling inside the boundary wall of a cinema near a deserted railway crossing on Abohar-Sriganganagar Road last night. Jawaharnagar police had received information about illegal gambling and drinking alcohol inside the long-closed cinema. Acting on this information, a police team raided and arrested the following persons. Mohinder Nayak, Chirag Doda, Karan Arora, Harish Dhuria, Deepak Kitty, Gaurav Nirvana, Gurpreet Singh, Shubham Khunger, Sahil Wadhwa and Akshay Dagala. They seized Rs 12,000 in gambling money from the group and registered a case against them under the Gambling Prevention Act. In a separate operation, police arrested four persons for gambling in the old Abadi area. Sushil, Irfan, Bhupinder and Harbhajan were caught from a school ground from where Rs 23,255 was seized.