{"id":8863,"date":"2020-01-09T07:20:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T07:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=8863"},"modified":"2020-01-09T07:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T07:20:45","slug":"gujarat-hc-defers-poker-matter-to-17th-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/gujarat-hc-defers-poker-matter-to-17th-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat HC Defers Poker Matter to 17th February."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source &#8211;  glaws.in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gujarat High Court once again deferred the hearings of letters patent appeals filed against a single judge bench\u2019s order ruling poker to be a game of chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A division bench of the High Court comprising of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice AJ Shastri did not hear the appeals that were scheduled for arguments on\u00a08th January, 2020. The court instead adjourned the matter to 17th February, 2020 and observed that daily hearings would be conducted from that date to expedite hearings in the matter.-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Letters patent appeals filed by  Indian Poker  Association Secretary KN Suresh, Dominance Games Private Limited, Aman Chhabra and Hotel Ramada, Ahmedabad against\u00a0a December 2017 single judge bench\u2019s order\u00a0ruling poker to be a game of chance\u00a0 have been pending for over two years now and have seen 22 adjournments till date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the court deciding to expedite hearings in the matter from February 2020 onwards, the possibility of getting a conclusive verdict on the legality of poker has increased. The high stakes matter would have implications on the skill games industry within the state of Gujarat and also have wider ramifications for the industry across the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/gujarat-hc-defers-poker-matter-to-17th-february\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; glaws.in The Gujarat High Court once again deferred the hearings of letters patent appeals filed against a single judge bench\u2019s order ruling poker to be a game of chance. A division bench of the High Court comprising of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice AJ Shastri did not hear the appeals that were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2965],"tags":[6068,7202,6187,7203],"class_list":["post-8863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gujarat-high-court","tag-chief-justice-2","tag-defers-poker","tag-gujarat-hc-2","tag-indian-poker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8864,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions\/8864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}