Gujarat, Kerala skill gaming matters marred by adjournments

pertaining to the legality of the skill gaming industry: a review petition on whether rummy for stakes ca🐽n be permitted pending before the Kerala High Court and the letters patent appeal on whether poker is a game of skill in the Gujarat High Court were adjourned without being heard in the past few weeks.

A fresh division bench of the court comprising of newly appointed Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice A.J. Shashtri was supposed to hear the ꦯappeal against ruling poker to be a game of chance on 16th September.

The clutch of petitions filed by Indian Poker Association Secretary KN Suresh, Dominance Games Private Limited, Aman Chhabra and Hotel Ramada, Ahmedabad🐼, however could not be heard on 16th September and are now scheduled to be hear𝔉d on 4th October, 2019.

Meanwhile, the review petitio💎ns filed by filed by online rummy websites Ace2Three, RummyCircle and Junglee Rummy against a saw three successive adjournments without much progress.

The matte💮r, last posted on 4th September before a division bench comprising of Justices AM Shaffique and N. Anil Kumar has now been posted for hearing✨ on 24th September, 2019.

It remains to be seen whether the matters on poker and rummy, critical to the skill gaming industry will gaiಞn mo🐼mentum in the next few weeks or see further adjournments.