ORDER :- The petitioner is a registered dealer having registration No. 3925 of West Bengal State Lottery for selling West Bengal State Lottery tickets and she carries on such business in her retail shop situated at No. 89 Bipin Behari Ganguly Street, Calcutta-12. According to the petitioner the terms and conditions of such dealership and agency are that the Director of State Lottery would sell and the dealer would purchase such number of lottery tickets as may be requisitioned by the dealer, on payment of full price there-of according to the face value of such tickets. After such purchase the dealer would become the absolute owner or all tickets so purchased by him/her and would be entitled to sell and transfer them from his/her shop to his/her customers by realising the face value. It is stated by the petitioner that the tickets so purchased by the dealer but which would remain unsold by him are not returnable to the Directorate of the State Lottery. The dealers remuneration is a certain fixed amount on the value of each price, if there is any prize-winning ticket at all amongst the tickets purchased by the dealer.

2. The petitioner in course of her said business and as de