{"id":777012743,"date":"2024-01-30T09:43:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012743"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:32:38","slug":"india-sc-adjourns-hearing-on-tamil-nadu-online-gaming-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-sc-adjourns-hearing-on-tamil-nadu-online-gaming-ban","title":{"rendered":"India: SC adjourns hearing on Tamil Nadu online gaming ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The court has adjourned until February 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- The Supreme Court has adjourned proceedings to address the Tamil Nadu government&#8217;s challenge to <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/madras-high-court-strikes-down-tamil-nadu-online-gaming-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Madras High Court decision<\/a>\u00a0to invalidate provisions of its ban on online gaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three-judge bench received an adjournment request from the counsel representing an online rummy company due to the unavailability of senior counsel<strong>\u00a0Mukul Rohatgi<\/strong>. The case is set to continue<strong>\u00a0on Monday, February 5<\/strong>. It possible that Tamil Nadu may ask for an ad-interim stay of the Madras High Court&#8217;s judgment when the matter is heard..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawyers including Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Gopal Shankarnarayanan and CA Sundaram represent online rummy companies, while the Tamil Nadu government is defended by senior counsel Kapil Sibal and recently designated senior counsel Amit Anand Tiwari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same bench is also addressing<strong>\u00a0tax appeals related to taxs on gaming<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sc-to-hear-final-arguments-on-28-gst-on-online-gaming-industry-in-april\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Final hearings in these cases <\/a>are set for April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court has adjourned until February 5.<\/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 Supreme Court of India has adjourned proceedings concerning the Tamil Nadu government's challenge to the Madras High Court's invalidation of its online gaming ban, specifically impacting online rummy. This adjournment, requested by counsel for an online rummy company, pushes the next hearing to February 5, with potential for an ad-interim stay request. Concurrently, the same bench is addressing related tax appeals, with final hearings scheduled for April.","focusai_entities":"Tamil Nadu government, Madras High Court, Supreme Court, Mukul Rohatgi, Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Gopal Shankarnarayanan, CA Sundaram, Kapil Sibal, Amit Anand Tiwari","focusai_location":"India, Tamil Nadu","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Interim Stay Impact","query":"What are the immediate operational and market implications for online rummy operators if the Supreme Court grants an ad-interim stay on the Madras High Court's judgment?"},{"label":"Broader Regulatory Precedent","query":"How might the Supreme Court's final ruling on Tamil Nadu's online gaming ban influence the legislative and regulatory approaches of other Indian states towards real-money gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16334],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-777012743","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\/777012743","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=777012743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012764,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012743\/revisions\/777012764"}],"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=777012743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}