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Issues: Whether the charge alleging offences under the Kerala Gaming Act was liable to be quashed for want of allegations of a common gaming house and for non-compliance with the mandatory requirements governing search and seizure.
Analysis: The provisions of the Kerala Gaming Act contemplate an offence only where gaming is connected with a common gaming house. A mere allegation that persons were found playing cards with money in a private building does not by itself satisfy the statutory requirements. The power of search under Section 5 is conditioned on credible information, necessary enquiry, recorded reasons, and action by an officer of the prescribed rank. Those safeguards are substantive and are designed to prevent misuse of the presumption under Section 6 and the consequential prosecution under Sections 7 and 8. On the materials available, there was no allegation of a common gaming house, no compliance with the statutory prerequisites for search, and the officer conducting the search was below the prescribed rank.
Conclusion: The proceedings were unsustainable, the cognizance was illegal, and the charge was liable to be quashed in exercise of inherent powers.
Ratio Decidendi: Prosecution under the gaming statute cannot stand unless the search is strictly in accordance with the prescribed statutory safeguards and the material discloses a common gaming house; otherwise the presumption and the resultant charge fail.
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