JAMSHEDPUR: LOTTOR has been banned in the state since November 2008 after the cabinet meeting at that time CM Shibu Soren, but those who were interested in running such a business even today.
Recently, lottery tickets seemed to be sold openly in Baharagora under the East Singhbhum district, located in the Tri-Junction of Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha.
The source said that tickets sold in this rural pocket were mostly obtained from West Bengal through the borders between porous countries.
The problem arrived at the police notice recently, when a large number of people, who had bought lottery tickets found them false.
The source said that fake tickets were printed in Gopiballavpur in neighboring Bengal Barat and sold in various places in Baharagora.
Those who bought fake tickets did not report the problem to the police, they were afraid of them.
When this problem was somehow brought to administrative notifications, the police official team visited the area and raided several Dens but could not capture anyone in this connection.
According to sources, around the number of Rs 2 Lakh worth of lottery tickets are sold in Baharagora and neighboring areas every day.
Customers Most bets every day they buy tickets with hopes of being rich last night.
Local police said they tried to catch the mastermind behind fake lottery fraud.
State BJP spokesman Kunal Sarangi, who fought and lost from this constituency in the latest assembly elections, said fake lottery rackets were active in this area.
Senior BJP leader Dineshand Goswami said on Thursday that lottery ticket sales in the area had been going on for years since the ban began to apply in Jharkhand.
He added that the police had arrested several people in this relationship in the past, but large sharks remained difficult to understand.