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IPC Section 294A - Keeping lottery office
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IPC Section 294A deals with keeping lottery office.
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294A. Keeping lottery office. Whoever keeps any office or place for the p urpose of drawing any
lottery 3[not being 4[a State lottery] or a lottery authorised by the 5[State] Government], shall be punished
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six mont hs, or with
fine, or with both.
And whoever publishes any proposal to pay any sum, or to deliver any goods, or to do or forbear
doing anything for the benefit of any person, on any event or contingency relative or applicable to the
drawing of any ticket, lot, number or figure in any such lottery , shall be punished with fine which may
extend to one thousand rupees.]
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