Court : Sikkim
Reported in : AIR2004Sik11
..... 36067/02) and in the meanwhile, the government of tamil nadu has banned the sale of lottery tickets organized, conducted or promoted by every state including the state of tamil nadu vide impugned notification dated 8th january 2003 by invoking the provision of section 5 of the lotteries (regulation) act, 1998 and that being the position, similar writ petitions and writ appeals were heard by the division bench of madras high court. ..... in the above case the supreme court interpreted section 5 to mean that the state can prohibit other state lotteries only if it does not conduct its own lotteries.as far as petitioner-state is concerned, it is carrying on the business of running the lotteries organised by it in strict conformity with the provisions of section 4 of the said act.when the lottery ordinance was in force the state of tamil nadu under section 5 of the said ordinance passed g.o.ms. no. ..... the validity of the said common judgment of the division bench of madras high court was questioned by the state of mizoram and two agents of state of bhutan and arunachal pradesh by way of special leave petition before the hon'ble supreme court of india and the hon'ble supreme court by its order dated 7th february 2003, dismissed those special ..... it is also the case of the respondent-state of tamil nadu that against the common judgment of the division bench of the madras high court, state of mizoram and others filed appeals by way of special leave petition before the hon'ble supreme court. .....
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