Gujarat: Gamblers also booked for spreading Covid-19

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AHMEDABAD: Apart from conducting Covid-19 tests on people caught for various offences, police are also being thorough about Covid protocols. When LCB personnel raided a gambling den on Wednesday, besides slapping charges of illegal gambling, they also booked the accused for not wearing masks and sitting close to each other.
In the FIR filed with Infocity police, Gandhinagar, local crime branch (LCB) cop Rakesh Mukeshsinh states that based on a tip-off they raided the house of Rakesh Patel in Vinayak Flora flats, Raysan village, and held eight people for illegal gambling and breach of Covid-related notification.
LCB sleuths found six persons sitting in a circle without masks and two others sitting near them. Police seized Rs 2.04 lakh cash, nine phones worth Rs 37,000 and three cars worth Rs 8.41 lakh. The FIR states the accused were booked for gambling, and violation of notifications regarding negligence likely to spread an infection. tnn
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