The petitioner is before this Court calling in question registration of a crime in Crime No.226/2024 pending before the Senior Civil Judge and JMFC Court, Holalkere, Chitradurga District, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 79 and 80 of the Karnataka Police Act , 1963.

2. Heard Sri Harish N.R., learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Harish Ganapati, learned High Court Government Pleader for the respondent.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the issue in the case at hand stands covered by the judgments rendered by the co-ordinate benches of this Court in Crl.P.No.100877/2014, disposed on 13.06.2014, which read as follows:

"5. On analysing the above said provision of law, this Court has rendered a decision reported in 1971(2) Mys. L.J. 187 in the case of Chickarangappa & Others Vs. State of Mysore and another decision reported in 1977 (1) K.L.J. 274 in the case of Eranna Vs. State of Karnataka, which decisions declare that, NC: 2024:KHC:25819 CRL.P No. 6323 of 2024 “playing ‘Andar Bahar’ is a game of skill and not mere a game of chance and therefore, the offence punishable under Section 79 and 80 of the Act are not attracted”.

6. In the ru