Playing cards without gambling not moral turpitude: SC

The Supreme Court ruled that playing cards for fun without gambling doesn’t involve moral turpitude, reinstating Hanumantharayappa YC’s election in Karnataka’s cooperative society

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Playing cards for entertainment and recreation without an element of betting and gambling does not involve moral turpitude, the Supreme Court has said as it restored the election of a man in a cooperative society in Karnataka.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh noted that one Hanumantharayappa YC, who was elected to the board of directors of Government Porcelain Factory Employees Housing Co-operative Society Ltd, was allegedly fined ₹200 without any trial when some persons, including him were caught playing cards sitting on a roadside.