A batch of ten review petitions, led by Junglee Games India, has been dismissed by the Supreme Court, MediaNama reported on Tuesday. The petitions challenged the court's May 27, 2026 judgment upholding Tamil Nadu and Karnataka laws banning online games played for stakes. A bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan dismissed the petitions on October 15 without an open-court hearing, and the companies' applications for an oral hearing were also rejected, MediaNama said.

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"We have carefully gone through the Review Petitions and the connected papers. We find no merit in the Review Petitions and the same are, accordingly, dismissed," the bench said, according to MediaNama, which published the court's order.

In the May judgment, the Supreme Court set aside the Madras and Karnataka High Court rulings that had struck down the state bans and held that states can prohibit online games played for money or other stakes, including games of skill such as rummy and poker, LawStreet Journal reported in its account of the judgment. The court held that when money is staked on an uncertain outcome, the activity becomes betting and gambling irrespective of skill.

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With the review petitions dismissed, the May judgment stands and a curative petition is the only remaining judicial remedy, an exceptional remedy the court entertains only on narrow grounds, MediaNama said. A nationwide ban on online money games is already in force under the central Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, whose provisions came into effect on May 1, 2026, and the challenge to that central law is a separate case, it added.