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Section 9: Penalty for gaming or setting birds or animals to fight in a public street or place

The Andhra Pradesh Gaming Act, 1974

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Andhra Pradesh (Home Department), with amendments up to Act No.43 of 2020.

The copy prints the title in its Arrangement of Sections as "THE ANDHRA PRADESH OF GAMING ACT, 1974"; the title is given here as printed above the text.

(1) Whoever is found gaming or reasonably suspected to be gaming in any public street or thoroughfare or in any place to which the public have, or are permitted to have, access shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to three hundred rupees or with both.

(2) Whoever is found setting any birds or animals to fight or is reasonably suspected to be aiding or abetting such fighting of birds or animals in any public street or thoroughfare or in any place to which the public have, or are permitted to have, access, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month or with fine which may extend to fifty rupees or with both.