Online gaming law: Karnataka HC adjourns case to Dec 22 for disposal

A bench comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justice Krishna S Dixit is listening to the petitions. Senior advocates Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Mukul Rohatgi appeared for petitioners, and argued the legislation was not sustainable.

The Karnataka authorities, on October 5, notified the legislation banning betting and wagering in on-line video games after Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot gave his assent. The Karnataka Legislature had handed amendments to the Karnataka Police Act, 1963 throughout its current sitting.

The state authorities has taken the stand earlier than the courtroom that its amendments don’t ban on-line “video games of probability” or “sport of ability”, they restrain individuals from risking cash “on the taking place of an unsure occasion and on-line platforms are prohibited from inducing gullible public with lure of unattainable prizes.”

Dream11 co-founders Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, who have been named in an FIR registered by the Annapoorneshwarinagar Police in October, nevertheless get pleasure from safety from any coercive motion, together with arrest, by the Bengaluru Police as per a reduction granted by the excessive courtroom.