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Prior to 1953 the respondents also conducted in the Illustrated Weekly of India a com. petition which was known as ''the commonsense Crosswords". In this competition there was more than one solution or apt word for each missing word, but there was an adjudication committee which used to decide which one of the alternatives was the most apt word. This competition was held to be of a gambling character by this Court in State of Bombay v. Chamarbaugwalla, and by the Supreme Court in State of Bombay v. R. M. D. Chamarbaugwala, . It was therefore discontinued. In 1955 the Prize Competitions Act, 1955, came into force.
R. M. D. Chamarbaugwalla vs The Union Of India(With Connected ... on 9 April, 1957
The Constitutional validity of this Act was challenged before the Supreme Court in Chamarbaugwala v. Union of India, . The Supreme Court held that this Act as well as the Bombay Lotteries and Prize Competitions Control and Tax Act, 1948 applied to prize competitions, which were essentially gambling in their character and that they did not apply to competitions in which success depended to a substantial degree on skill. In 1956 the petitioners started a new competition known as "Quotes." The first Quotes competition (Quotes No. 1),was published in the Illustrated Weekly of India in October 1956. The competition is presented in the form of a cross word square and most of the words in it are from quotations, which according to the petitioners are taken from popular books of well known authors or which are otherwise memorable or deserve to be preserved. Competitors are asked to supply the words actually used by the authors. One letter of each missing word is kept blank in the crossword square. To help the competitors a list of words, which includes the missing words, is also published. (This list was however not given in Quotes Nos. 8 to 15). For each missing word two alternatives are suggested one being the word actually used by the author in the quotation and another word referred to in the evidence as the fill in word. Care is taken to see that this word also fits in the quotation and "reads smoothly with the rest of the sentence," The two alternative words such as Tiny Tidy, Bold-Cold, Roof--Room. Din--Don, differ from each other only In respect of one letter, which is kept blank in the crossword table. In a few competitions more than two words were suggested for one missing word. From the letters printed in the crossword table and the list of words given, it is easy to find out in respect of each missing word the alternative words from which the correct word is to be chosen to complete the quotation. From Quotes No. 6 apart from the missing words in the quotations, the crossword square also contains blank spaces for a few other words, but these are such that with the aid of the clues given it is easy to find them. The competition therefore essentially consists in spotting the correct words for the missing words in the quotations. There is only one correct answer or solution in respect of each missing word and that is the word used by the author in his original work. Each competition is stated to be "open to all readers" and a reader can submit more than one entry. The names of the authors of quotations and the correct solutions are published in subsequent issues of the Illustrated Weekly, but the names of the books from which the quotations were taken are not so published.
Bombay Lotteries (Control and Tax) and Prize Competitions (Tax) Act, 1958
The Indian Penal Code, 1860
Section 2 in The Prize Competitions Act, 1955 [Entire Act]
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