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Section 7: Presumptive proof of keeping or gaming in common gaming-house.

The Maharashtra Prevention of Gambling Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 4 of 1887

[7. Presumptive proof of keeping or gaming in common gaming house.- When any instrument of gaming has been seized in any house, room or place entered under section 6 or about the person of any one found therein, and in the case of any other things so seized if the Court is satisfied that the Police officer who entered such house, room or place had resonable grounds for suspecting that the things so seized was an instrument of gaming, the seizure of such instrument or thing shall be evidence, until the contrary is proved, that such house, room or place is used as a common gaming-house and the person found therein were then present for the purpose of gaming, although no gaming was actually seen by the Magistrate or the Police officer or by any person acting under the authority of either of them:]

[Provided that the aforesaid presumption shall be made, notwithstanding any defect in the warrant or order in pursuance of which the house, room or place was entered under section 6, if the Court considers the defect not to be a material one.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Prevention of Gambling Act.
Section7
Marginal notePresumptive proof of keeping or gaming in common gaming-house.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Bom. 1 of 1936. Section 7 was substituted for the original section by Bom. 1 of 1936, s. 6.
  • added, Bom. 14 of 1959. This proviso was added by Bom. 14 of 1959, s. 3 (f).

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