Govt Staff Held for Gambling

BALANGIR: Balangir Town Police arrested four employees of Irrigation Department besides a contractor on Thursday night while they were gambling in a dilapidated rest house in the Irrigation Co

BALANGIR: Balangir Town Police arrested four employees of Irrigation Department besides a contractor on Thursday night while they were gambling in a dilapidated rest house in the Irrigation Colony.

The police seized ` 7,310, six mobile phone and playing cards from the spot.

The arrested include employees Arkhit Jued, Sibram Gouda, Sunil Kumar Behera, Pandit Mangal Pandey and  the contractor Ashok Kumar Tripathy.

A case has been registered under Section 3 of Orissa Prevention of Gambling Act and the accused forwarded to court.