Police raid lottery centers for tax evasion

Mumbai police raided seven online lottery centers, and arrested 11 people accused of evading payment of the 28% goods and services tax (GST).

According to The Times of India, those charged had been giving customers handwritten lottery tickets rather than issuing official printed ones.

Separate raids were carried out in the Shivaji Park, Byculla, Kalachowki, and Agripada areas, according to an official interviewed by The Times of India, which stated that the practice of issuing handwritten tickets had been going on for a long time.

Among the items confiscated from the suspects were 11 computers, hard disks, CPUs, five mobile phones, and cash totaling over 100,000 rupees ($1,400).