Offences in connection with lotteries

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, every person who in connection with any lottery promoted or proposed to be promoted, either in the State or elsewhere— (a) Publishes any proposal to pay any sum or to deliver any goods, one or more or infer from data, anything for the benefit that person, on any event or contingency relative or applicable to the drawing of any ticket, lot, number, colour, or figure in the lottery; or (b) prints any tickets for use in the lottery; or (c) sells or distributes, or offers or advertises for sale or distribution, or has in his possession for the purpose of sale or distribution, any ticket or chance in the lottery; or (d) prints, publishes or distributes, or has in his possession for the purpose of publication or distribution— (i) any advertisement of the lottery; or (ii) any list (whether complete or not) of prize-winners or winning tickets in the lottery; or (iii) any such matter descriptive of the drawings intended for the lottery, or otherwise relating to the lottery as is calculated to act as an inducement to persons to participate in the lottery; or (e) sends or attempts to send out of the State, (i) any money or valuable thing received in respect of the sale or distribution of any ticket or chance in the lottery; or (ii) any document recording the sale or distribution or any ticket or chance in the lottery; or (iii) any document recording the identity of the holder of any ticket or chance in the lottery; or (f) uses any premises, or permits any premises to be used, for purposes connected with the promotion or conduct of the lottery: or (g) causes or attempts to cause any person to do any of the above mentioned acts, shall, on conviction, be punishable— (i) for the first offence with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees: (ii) for the second offence with fine which may extend to three thousand rupees; and (iii) for any subsequent offence with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees or with both. (2) In any proceedings instituted under sub-section (1), an accused person shall not be deemed to be guilty if he proves that the lottery to which the proceedings relate was such a lottery as is not deemed to be an unlawful lottery under section 5, section 6 or section as the case may be, and that at the date of the alleged offence the accused believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that there was no contravention of any of the conditions required by section 5 or section 6 or section to be observed in connection with the promotion and conduct of the lottery.