.....of keeping or using a room as a common gaming house can be made out only if there is sufficient proof of presence of element of profit. The mere fact that sometimes persons play cards in a house and perhaps for money, does not necessarily make it a common gaming house -1952 MWN 162: Gain is a necessary element to prove the charge " 1954 Crl LJ 56. AIR 1954 Mad 134; 4 . (This Section was repealed by section 3 of, and the second Schedule to, the Tamil Nadu Repealing and Amending Act, 1957 (Tamil Nadu Act XXV of 1957)). [ ]. 5 . Administration vested in the Commissioner of police:- The administration of the Police of the City of Madras shall be vested in an officer to be styled the Commissioner of Police for Madras. (The words "who shall from time to time be appointed by the Governor in Council of Fort St. George and may be removed by the same authority "were omitted by the Adaptation Order of 1937.) [* * *] Administration of police employed at Railway Stations, etc., may be vested in the Inspector-General of Police:- ( This proviso was added by section 1 of the Madras Act III of 1898. As to the control by the Inspector-General of Police of the City Police, see.....
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