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Definition :

Common gaming house, 'common gaming house' means--

(i) in the case of gaming--

(a) on the market price of cotton, opium or other commodity or on the digits of the number used is stating such price, or

(b) on the amount of variation in the market price of any such commodity or on the digits of the number used in stating the amount of such variation, or

(c) on the market price of any stock or share or on the digits of the number used in stating such price, or

(d) on the occurrence or non-occurrence of rain or other natural event, or

(e) on the quantity of rainfall or on the digits of the number used in stating such quantity, or

(f) on the pictures, digits or figures of one or more playing cards or other documents or objects bearing numbers, or on the total of such digits or figures, or on the basis of the occurrence or non-occurrence of any uncertain future event, or on the result of any draw, or on the basis of the sequence or any permutation or combination of such pictures, digits, figures, numbers, events or draws, any house, room or place whatsoever in which such gaming takes place or in which instruments of gaming are kept or used for such gaming:

(ii) in the case of any other form of gaming, any house, room or place whatsoever in which any instruments of gaming are kept or used for the profit or gain of the person owning, occupying, using or keeping such house, room or place by way of charge for the use of such house, room or place or instrument or otherwise howsoever, Jagat Singh Kishor Singh Darbar v. State of Gujarat, (1979) 4 SCC 307: AIR 1979 SC 857 (858): (1979) 3 SCR 33. [Bombay Prevention of Gambling Act (4 of 1887) s. 3(1)(ii), 7]

The definition of 'common purposes' in the East Punjab Holdings(consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act,1948 which includes any purpose in relation to any common need, convenience or benefit of the village in respect of 'village roads', Padam Nabh Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1977 SC 2001: (1977) 4 SCC 1.