Allahabad High Court

Poker and rummy are games of skill, not gambling: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has delivered a landmark ruling, declaring that poker and rummy are games of skill rather than gambling. This significant judgment was passed on Wednesday by a division bench comprising Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Manjeev Shukla. The court's decision came in response to a petition filed by DM Gaming Private Limited under Article 226 of the Constitution. The company had challenged an earlier order from the Agra City Commissionerate that denied them permission to ...

August 13, 2024 3:12 PM

Religious freedom does not include collective right to convert others: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday rejected a bail plea in a case of alleged forced religious conversion, stating that religious freedom does not encompass a collective right to convert others. The ruling came in a case involving accusations of forcible conversion to Islam and sexual exploitation. Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal, presiding over the bench, emphasized that the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, aims to protect religious freedom for all individua...