A lawyer representing the All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) today referenced the writ appeal filed by AIGF before Justice Krishna S. Dixit. The petition was filed against the amendment to the Karnataka Police Act, 1963 that viably prohibited all games for stakes. The lawyer called attention to that games of skill have suddenly been criminalized under the amendment, and that there is a grave danger of coercive activity.

A sum of six petitions is filed so far against the amendment. The last numbering was postponed because of Dussehra vacation to the Karnataka High Court. Aside from the State of Karnataka, the petitioner has included the Department of Law (Karnataka), the Director-General of Police, the Commissioner of Police (Bengaluru), the Department of Home (Karnataka) as the respondents.

The petitioners in the remaining five petitions are Head Digital Works Private Limited (the organization that works online rummy platform A23), Play Games24x7 Private Limited (the organization that works RummyCircle and My11Circle), Gameskraft Technologies Private Limited (the organization that works RummyCulture and Gamezy), Galactus Funware Technology Private Limited (that works skill games under the brand Mobile Premier League), and Junglee Games (that works Junglee Rummy, Junglee Teen Patti, and fantasy gaming platform Howzat).

At the hour of writing this, the petitions by GamesKraft and Junglee Games are pending final enrollment. This load of petitions challenging the amendment will be listed under the single judge bench according to the publicly available vault information.

Credits: Gateway to Gaming