TS punters bet high on rooster fights in AP
The Hindu
KHAMMAMSeveral mango orchards on the Andhra Pradesh side of the inter-State border hosted cockfights, banned violent sport involving roosters, with many punters from the old undivided Khammam district
KHAMMAM
Several mango orchards on the Andhra Pradesh side of the inter-State border hosted cockfights, banned violent sport involving roosters, with many punters from the old undivided Khammam district of Telangana betting huge sums of money running into lakhs in the “high-stakes, multi-crore gambling” during Sankranti festival on Saturday.
Sources said several high-profile punters from both Khammam and Bhadradri-Kothagudem district and elsewhere in the State participated in cockfighting by pitching their trained roosters in the ring at various venues on the other side of the border in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari, East Godavari and Krishna districts on Saturday.

When reporters brought to her notice the claim by villagers that the late maharaja of Mysore Sri Jayachamaraja Wadiyar had gifted the land to them, Pramoda Devi Wadiyar said she is not aware of the matter, but sought to assure people that no effort will be made to take back the land that had been gifted by the late maharaja.