Court : Gujarat
Decided on : Feb-27-1978
Reported in : (1979)1GLR226
D.P. Desai, J.1. The four respondents in Criminal Appeal No. 383 of 1975 were charged before the learned Metropolitan Magistrate, Ahmedabad in Summary Case No. 2957 of 1974 with an offence punishable under Sections 4(D)(a), (b), (c) and (d) of the Bombay Lotteries (Control and Tax) and Prize Competitions (Tax) Act, 1958 (the Act). All the respondents are Directors of a private limited company known as Mohan Benefit Private Limited. The activity of this Company is to open schemes and enroll certain number of members or subscribers to the scheme, Each scheme is also known as a Group; and the number of subscribers is limited to a particular number. Each subscriber has to deposit or subscribe every month a particular amount for a particular number of months. The group in question, as disclosed from the advertisement at Exh. 6 is described as Peoples' Own Group. It is to consist of 2000 members, each member subscribing a monthly subscription of Rs. 20/ for 60 months. Each member is to get a...
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