horse races, card games and other games of any sort or from gambling or betting of any form or nature whatsoever. Explanation.—For the purposes
Constitution of India
India
Constitution of India
CONTITUENTASSEMBLY 00 of 1950
Published in Gazette 00
Har Shankar & Ors. Etc. Etc vs The Dy. Excise & Taxation Commr. & Ors
years, for payment, after meeting him at a gambling den. It appears to us rather strange that in a busy locality, where the search ... staying in the house of my parents. As I was indulging in gambling my parents were not on good terms with me. The parents might
goes on to say- "An unlawful gambling scheme in which (a) the players pay or agree to pay something of value for chances, represented ... value."
2. Lottery is a game of chance and hence like gambling it is a vice. Gambling is as old as the human ingenuity
Article
19(1)(g). We find it difficult to persuade
ourselves that gambling was ever intended to
form any part of this ancient country ... regarded as
falling within the meaning of these words,
gambling cannot certainly be taken as one of
them. We are convinced and satisfied that
Lottery--Prize competitions, if and when of a gambling
mature--Legislation taxing Promoters of such competition
carried on through newspaper printed and Published outside ... State--Validity-Test-Territorial nexus--Gambling, if
trade and commerce within the meaning of the
Constitution--Constitutionality of enactment--Bombay
Lotteries and Prize Competition Control
Prize Competition--Definition-- Construction-- If includes
competition other than of a gambling nature--Validity of
enactment--Principle of severability-- Application--Prize
Competitions ... included not
merely competitions that were of a gambling nature but also
those in which success depended to a substantial degree on
skill
Section 13 in The Public Gambling Act, 1867
13. Gaming and setting birds and animals to fight in public streets
.A police officer may apprehend
Section 4 in The Public Gambling Act, 1867
4. Penalty for being found in gaming-house
.Whoever is found in any such house, walled enclosure