Keeping, managing or financing a common gambling house

Keeping, managing or financing a common gambling house.- Whoever —

1. (i) being the owner, occupier or having the use of any public or commercial place or online platform, situated within the limits to which this Act applies, opens, keeps or uses the same as a common gambling house; or
2. (ii) being the owner or occupier of any public or commercial place or online platform as aforesaid, knowingly or willfully permits the same to be opened, occupied, used or kept by any other person as a common gambling house; or
3. (iii) maintains, manages, conducts or in any manner assists in carrying on the business of any public or commercial place or online platform opened, occupied, used or kept for the purpose of gambling; or
4. (iv) advances, furnishes or provides money or any financial assistance for the purposes of gambling or for enabling persons to resort to any public or commercial place or online platform for gambling, shall be punishable—

1. (a) for the first offence, with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to fifty thousand rupees;
2. (b) for subsequent offences, with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than two years but which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to one lakh rupees.