Unauthorised lottery prohibition bars operating or promoting non-State lotteries and penalises office-keeping and promotional publications. The provision criminalises keeping any office or place for conducting a lottery that is not a State lottery or authorised by the State Government, punishable by imprisonment up to six months, or fine, or both. It also penalises publishing proposals to pay, deliver goods, or perform or forbear acts for the benefit of a person contingent on the drawing of any ticket, lot, number or figure in such an unauthorised lottery, punishable by a fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.
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Unauthorised lottery prohibition bars operating or promoting non-State lotteries and penalises office-keeping and promotional publications.
The provision criminalises keeping any office or place for conducting a lottery that is not a State lottery or authorised by the State Government, punishable by imprisonment up to six months, or fine, or both. It also penalises publishing proposals to pay, deliver goods, or perform or forbear acts for the benefit of a person contingent on the drawing of any ticket, lot, number or figure in such an unauthorised lottery, punishable by a fine which may extend to five thousand rupees.
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