Penalty for owning or keeping or having charge of a common gambling house

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Statutory text

(1) Whoever, being the owner, occupier or keeper of a common gambling house or who indulges in financing, directly or indirectly for the operation of a common gambling house, shall be liable to imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three years but which may extend to five years and shall also be liable to fine up to one lakh rupees.
(2) Whoever has been previously convicted of an offence punishable under sub-section
(1) and is subsequently found guilty of an offence punishable under said sub-section, shall be punished for second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than five years but which may extend to seven years and shall also be liable to fine which shall not be less than two lakh rupees but which may extend to five lakh rupees.

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