Section-4 of the Public Gambling Act, 1867
The Public Gambling Act, 1867
(ACT NO. II OF 1867)
Penalty for being found in common gaming-house
4. Whoever is found in
any such house, tent, room, space, or walled enclosure, playing or gaming with
cards, dice, counters, money or other instruments of gaming, or is found there
present for the purpose of gaming, whether playing for any money, wager, stake
or otherwise,
shall be liable, on conviction before any Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding
one hundred taka or to imprisonment of either description, as defined in
the Penal Code, for any term not exceeding one month; and any person found in any common gaming-house during
any gaming or playing therein shall be presumed, until the contrary be proved, to have been there for the purpose of gaming.
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