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

The Telangana Gaming Act, 1974

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Telangana (Home Department): the Andhra Pradesh Gaming Act, 1974 as in force in the combined State on 2 June 2014, adapted to Telangana under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 by the Telangana Adaptation of Laws Order, 2016 (G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016), with amendments up to Act No.29 of 2017.

Amendments made by Andhra Pradesh after 2 June 2014, such as the Andhra Pradesh Gaming (Amendment) Act, 2020 (A.P. Act 43 of 2020), do not apply in Telangana and are not in this text.

1[(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 six months or with fine which may extend to five thousand 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 six months or with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees or with both.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Substituted by Act No.29 of 2017.