The Madras High Court will hear online gaming firms’ challenge against the ban on July 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
India.- The Madras High Court is to hear writ petitions filed by the All India Gaming Federation (AIGF)<\/a> and several online gaming firms challenging the validity of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Act, 2022<\/a>. The hearing is set for July 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Representing the online gaming firms, senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi, for Junglee Rummy, A23, and Games24x7, and Abhishek Manu Singhvi, for Gameskraft, argue that the new law is unconstitutional and contradicts various judgments made by the Supreme Court and High Courts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Rohatgi argued that online games like rummy and poker are games of skill<\/strong>, and Singhvi highlighted that recent bans on online rummy passed by the Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala governments had been struck down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a recent hearing, they sought interim relief, but senior counsel Kapil Sibal, representing the state government, opposed the plea, stating that a similar request had been previously denied by a division bench. Chief justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala declined to grant interim relief and set a date for final arguments. Kapil Sibal can present his submissions on or after July 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Madras High Court will hear online gaming firms’ challenge against the ban on July 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":34643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Madras High Court is set to hear challenges from the All India Gaming Federation and several online gaming operators against the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Act, 2022 on July 13. Operators, represented by senior counsel, argue the ban is unconstitutional, citing previous rulings that online rummy and poker are games of skill. Interim relief was denied, with final arguments scheduled.","focusai_entities":"Madras High Court, All India Gaming Federation, Junglee Rummy, A23, Games24x7, Gameskraft, Mukul Rohatgi, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Kapil Sibal, Sanjay V. Gangapurwala","focusai_location":"India, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.98), operator_casino (0.98), affiliate_publisher (0.85), product_ux (0.7), marketing_crm (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Precedent Impact","query":"What are the broader implications for other Indian states considering similar online gaming prohibitions, given the legal arguments presented and previous High Court rulings?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy","query":"How are affected operators adjusting their market entry or operational continuity strategies in India, particularly regarding product offerings and compliance frameworks, pending the final judgment?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777006887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777006887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777006937,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006887\/revisions\/777006937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777006887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777006887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777006887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}