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Single-digit lottery: court directive to Governments

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, MAY 25. A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court today directed the Union Government, State Government, the Director of Lotteries and the Meghalaya Government to pay costs for not filing counter-affidavits in response to a writ petition seeking to ban single digit lotteries in the State.

The Bench comprising the Chief Justice, N. K. Sodhi, and the Justice, P.R. Raman, directed the Central Government to pay Rs. 5,000 while the State Government and the Director of Lotteries should jointly pay Rs.5,000. The Meghalaya Government had also been directed to pay Rs.5,000.

The court ordered that the officers responsible for not filing the affidavits should personally pay the amounts and they should not be debited to the exchequer. The court ordered that the amounts be paid to the Secretary, Kerala State Legal Services Authority.

When the petition filed by Umesh, a lawyer, came up last time, the court had directed the Union Government to file a counter-affidavit stating what action it had taken on a report sent by the State Government seeking to ban the sale of single-digit lotteries. Though the court had given the respondent eight weeks to file counter-affidavits, they had not filed them. It was in this background that the cost had been imposed on all the respondents. The court also gave the respondents a week to file the counter-affidavits.

According to the petitioner, the State Government had allowed the sale of single-digit lotteries conducted by the Meghalaya Government, in violation of the laws.

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