4 held in lucky draw scam in Hyderabad

Hyderabad:The South Zone Task force sleuths on Saturday night arrested four accused by name Mohammed Abdul Hafeez (30), Syed Farooq Ali (38), Mohammed Azher Ali (25), and Syed Ghouse (36) of Prize, Chits and Money circulation gang for running illegal lucky draw schemes and cheating the people. They seized Rs 12.62 lakh net cash, Chance Coins and other material from the possession of them.

The sleuths said efforts are on to nab the other absconding accused by name Syed Gulam Dastagir and 33 other collection agents. The accused are running illegal lucky draw scheme in the name of Evergreen Enterprises at Meer Sagar in Kalapathar and cheating the innocent daily wage labour and credulous people.

Based on the complaint of Obaid Khan on January 29 in which he stated that in the scheme of 14 months, the accused were joined around 3000 members and collected Rs 1000 from every member per month and on 23rd of every month they conduct a draw and the members who pay the amount regularly without any due balance will get prizes like cars, bikes, Refregirators, Air conditioners, TVs, gold, silver, washing machine and net cash, police registered a case and arrested the accused.