Hyderabad, September 10: Justice Ramesh Ranganathan of the AP High Court on Friday disposed a writ petition declaring that if members of a club were playing only rummy then the question of interference by the police does not arise.
The power of the police, he said, however to inspect such clubs to ascertain the same is valid. He further made it clear that the police could take action in accordance with law, if it is found that the members were playing other card games which were not skill-based but based on chance and thus amounted to gambling.
The judge was dealing with a writ petition filed by GVR Resorts- a club in Bowenpally, complaining of police harassment.
-PTI