An appeal against the single judge’s decision is pending before a division bench. The state government had amended the Kerala Gaming Act of 1960 in February last year to ban online rummy games played for money, but the same was quashed by the High Court in September 2021 on pleas moved by gaming companies. The massive advertisement campaigns, especially using celebrities, are also not helping to keep people away from such games, he said, and added that the fact that some celebs are ready to withdraw from such advertisements was exemplary. With an increase in popularity of online games like rummy, there has also been a rise in mobile apps offering loans as well as online loan advertisements, and those who lose money on the games take loans to continue playing, and it turns into a vicious cycle which allegedly leads them to financial ruin, the CM noted. As people get hooked on the games, they have no clue whom they are playing against, and there are reports that artificial intelligence-based programs are often playing on the other side. The modus operandi of such sites is to first offer freebies to make people addicted to such games, and thereafter, motivate them to play more and spend more money. Vijayan said that online gaming sites make it easy for anyone, including children, to open an account to play such games, and people are lured by offers of huge prize money and other attractive prizes. The CM was responding to a submission by UDF MLA A P Anilkumar that online rummy games played for money should be banned or restricted as it has allegedly pushed many in the state into financial burden and led others to commit suicide. ![]() Besides that, a social policing system, various schemes of student police cadets, and awareness campaigns through the media are also being implemented to prevent people from becoming addicted to such games, Vijayan. However, until that happens, various state departments, including the police, are conducting awareness programs in schools and colleges. The government had said in the state assembly that it was considering bringing in the amendment subject to the outcome of its appeal in the Kerala High Court against a single judge’s order quashing the ban on online rummy games played for money. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.With celebrities promoting online rummy and massive advertisement campaigns being run to attract people to play the card game, which has allegedly pushed many into financial ruin and some to commit suicide as a result, the Kerala government has said it was considering amending its gaming laws to regulate such online games. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. ![]() This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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