The Supreme Court has listed a batch of online gaming state-law matters for judgment on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. The daily cause list places Item 1501 before a special bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan in Court No. 7 at 10:30 AM, with the judgment marked as by Justice Pardiwala.
The lead matter is State of Tamil Nadu and Ors. v. Junglee Games India Pvt. Ltd. and Anr. (C.A. Nos. 6124-6131/2023). Connected matters listed for judgment include State of Tamil Nadu and Ors. v. All India Gaming Federation, State of Karnataka and Anr. v. All India Gaming Federation, and Varun Gumber v. Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports (FIFS) and Ors. The cause-list entry itself gives only limited information beyond the listed cases, bench and authoring judge.
These are state-law disputes over online real-money gaming and the skill-versus-chance question, not ordinary PC, console or mobile video games.
There is also a newer central-law layer. The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 (PROGA) extends to the whole of India and prohibits online money games and online money gaming services. MeitY's Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Rules, 2026 came into force on May 1, 2026, and PROGA itself is under challenge before the Supreme Court. That means Wednesday's state-law judgment may not have an immediate operational effect for India's real-money gaming industry unless the central-law position changes.
The key caveat is what is not on the list: the Gameskraft GST batch, led by Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence v. Gameskraft Technologies. Earlier Supreme Court listings in 2025 had the GST matter shown with several online gaming matters, and an external report says the bench reserved judgment in the GST batch on August 12, 2025. But the May 27 cause list does not list the GST matter for pronouncement.
That is the safest reading from the public record today. Unless the court separately lists or pronounces another matter, Wednesday's listed judgment concerns the Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and FIFS connected state-law matters. The GST batch and PROGA challenge remain outside this cause-list entry, though the ruling's reasoning on state power and the skill-versus-chance line could influence both.