Indian Poker Association to start poker room in Jharkhand

Bengaluru-based Indian Poker Association (IPA) has announced that it will be startinဣg a new poke♔r room at Ranchi’s Holiday Home hotel in Jharkhand on 15th August.

The announcement was ౠmade by IPA Secretary KN Suresꩲh and IPA’s affiliate organisation, the East India Poker Association on social media.

While confirming the development, Suresh stated that they believe there will not be any legal difficulties in running the poker room as they had written to 🤪the Director General of Police (DGP) of Jharkhand about their intention of starting a poker room. He further noted that the authorities✃ have not raised any objection to the plan so far and the DGP has forwarded IPA’s petition to the jurisdictional police.

IPA and Suresh have spearheaded the movement to start offline poker rooms in the country for the past few years. Suresh filed a writ petitions in the and Calcutta Hꦦigh Courts, based on which poker rooms have been operating in the two jurisdictions.

IPA also attempted to start a poker room in but had to shut down operat💃ions due to legal issues. The association’s poker operations in Ahmedabad had also run into trouble with the police, with a single judge of the Gujarat High Court ruling that poker is a game of chance and cannot be allowed. The appeal from the single judge’ꦏs order is now before a division bench of the Gujarat High Court, which is now scheduled to hear the case on 11th September.

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