( 1 ) ON 2/06/1963 the Assistant Superintendent of Police, Vizianagaram, on receiving information that the house bearing No 15-5-9/3 in Temple Street in Vizianagaram was being run as a common gaming-house, ostensibly under the name and style of Brothers Union Recreation Club", raided the premises. He look with him two mediators and Sub-Inspector of Police and when the party entered the premises they found seven persons sitting round a table, playing a card game known as "rummy" with plastic chips evidently convertible into money value. The Assistant Superintendent of Police interrogated the gamblers and seized the playing cards, the chips and an amount of Rs. 1-67 np. He then searched the adjoining portion of the same premises, which was occupied by Chepuri Venkata Varaha Narasimhulu alias Baburao. That person was stated to be the Secretary of the Club and was apparently running the common gaming-house. On a search of his room, a sum of Rs 1230-67 Np. in cash besides three sets of old card packs and seventeen sets of new card packs and a large number of plastic chips which could be used as tokens, were recovered under a "mahasaruama. "

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