{"id":777009395,"date":"2023-09-19T07:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777009395"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:58:34","slug":"tamil-nadu-online-gaming-ban-appeal-to-be-heard-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tamil-nadu-online-gaming-ban-appeal-to-be-heard-this-week","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu online gaming ban appeal to be heard this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Supreme Court of India will hear an appeal by the government against the Madras High Court&#8217;s decision to strike down its ban on online gaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- The Supreme Court bench, comprising Justices\u00a0<strong>Aniruddha Bose\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Bela Trivedi<\/strong>, has resumed deliberations on the Tamil Nadu government&#8217;s appeal against the Madras High Court&#8217;s 2021 decision to strike down the state&#8217;s online gaming ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a previous hearing on September 15, gaming companies and the All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) argued that the appeal had become irrelevant due to the enactment of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tamil-nadu-governor-approves-online-gambling-ban\" target=\"_blank\">a new online gaming law by the Tamil Nadu government<\/a>. This new legislation faces its own legal challenge at the Madras High Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to G2G News,\u00a0<strong>Amit Anand Tiwari<\/strong>, the additional advocate general for the state of Tamil Nadu asserted that the matter had not become irrelevant and that issue of whether online rummy could be played for stakes still required resolution. The Supreme Court has scheduled the matter for further discussion on Friday (September 22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of India will hear an appeal by the government against the Madras High Court&#8217;s decision to strike down its ban on online gaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":13727,"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 Supreme Court of India is deliberating an appeal by the Tamil Nadu government against a Madras High Court decision that struck down its online gaming ban. This legal challenge, complicated by the enactment of new state legislation also facing judicial review, centers on the legality of online rummy for stakes. The outcome will significantly influence the regulatory landscape for real-money gaming across India.","focusai_entities":"Supreme Court of India, Madras High Court, Justices Aniruddha Bose, Bela Trivedi, All India Gaming Federation (AIGF), Amit Anand Tiwari, Tamil Nadu government","focusai_location":"India, Tamil Nadu","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.8), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (1.0), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"SC Ruling Impact","query":"What specific legal precedents could the Supreme Court's decision on the Tamil Nadu government's initial online gaming ban establish for future state-level iGaming regulations in India?"},{"label":"New Law's Vulnerability","query":"How does the Supreme Court's continued deliberation on the previous ban affect the legal vulnerability and potential outcome of the ongoing challenge against Tamil Nadu's new online gaming legislation?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16334],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-777009395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009395","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=777009395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009408,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009395\/revisions\/777009408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777009395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777009395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777009395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}