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A Pune-based company has opened a poker club in Mumbai, located on India’s west coast. Located in the upmarket Linking Road area of Santacruz, the poker club is managed by the New World of Sports Club Limited (NWOS), reported GLaws.in. The company is co-founded by Pune-based businessman Allen Bansode, Rishi Nagpal and Suraj Kusalkar. According to GLaws.in’s Jay Sayta, the company “claims to have secured the necessary permissions and licenses from the police for running a licensed card room for the skill-based game of poker in the city.”

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The Law Commission of India is seeking public input to help craft its report on whether the government should legalize sports betting and gambling. Late last year, India’s Supreme Court tasked the Law Commission with studying the potential for legalizing sports betting in the world’s most populous country. The Court’s request was based on recommendations made by the Lodha Committee, which suggested that legalized betting could help reduce highly public incidents of tampering with Indian sports, most notably cricket.

After starting and shutting down his online poker and stock games venture, British businessman Raj Kundra and his wife Shilpa Shetty Kundra have partnered with the International Federation of Poker (IFP) to launch a new poker league in India.

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A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking its directions to the central government to legalise and regulate sports betting in the country as per a report in the Times of India. A division bench of Justices Dipak Mishra and AM Khanwilkar has reportedly agreed to hear the matter along with the pending matters on cricket reforms, although full details about the petition and what transpired in court are currently unclear.

Head Infotech Pvt. Ltd. which operates rummy website Ace2Three is set to be acquired by a consortium of foreign funds led by Canadian Private Equity fund Clairvest Group Inc. for around $90-100 million (around Rs. 590-650 crores). As per an Information Memorandum (IM) that has been doing the rounds, Clairvest Group and other foreign buyers are set to acquire close to 85% stake in Head Infotech. The deal will in all likelihood be announced very soon.