The government of Tamil Nadu has gone to the Supreme Court in a bid to reinstate its ban on online gambling after the Madras High Court suspended implementation of the amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
India.- Authorities in Tamil Nadu continue to push for their ban on online gambling. The state has filed an order with the Supreme Court against the Madras High Court in a bit to reinstate the ban. The Madras High Court<\/a>\u00a0struck down the legislation that banned online gambling in Tamil Nadu in August following a petition brought by online operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The High Court ruled that the ban was excessive and disproportionate to the object it sought to achieve, but said the legislature could enact new legislation<\/strong>\u00a0to regulate online games. However, the government argues that the Madras High Court incorrectly concluded that the state lacked legislative authority to pass the 2021 amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Tamil Nadu bill, introduced by\u00a0deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam<\/a>, included punishments of\u00a0up to two years in prison<\/strong> or a fine of up to Rs10,000 (US$ 137.15)\u00a0for online gambling. The authorities say people aged 25 to 30 are losing their earnings by playing online games such as rummy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In November, the\u00a0Karnataka state government<\/a> took the decision to ban all forms of gambling in the state.\u00a0Several companies criticised<\/a>\u00a0the amendment and took the case of Tamil Nadu as an example to try to overturn the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The government of Tamil Nadu has gone to the Supreme Court in a bid to reinstate its ban on online gambling after the Madras High Court suspended implementation of the amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Tamil Nadu government has appealed to the Supreme Court to reinstate its ban on online gambling, following the Madras High Court's decision to strike down the 2021 amendment. This legal challenge underscores ongoing regulatory uncertainty for iGaming operators in India, with the government citing public welfare concerns regarding financial losses from online games.","focusai_entities":"Tamil Nadu government, Madras High Court, Supreme Court, O Panneerselvam, Karnataka state government","focusai_location":"India, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.98), affiliate_publisher (0.85), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.85), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Tamil Nadu's Supreme Court Arguments?","query":"What specific legal arguments is the Tamil Nadu government presenting to the Supreme Court to assert its legislative authority over online gambling, and how do these counter the Madras High Court's prior ruling?"},{"label":"Impact on Indian iGaming Market?","query":"Should the Supreme Court reinstate the ban, what are the projected financial and operational implications for iGaming operators and B2B suppliers currently active or planning market entry in India, considering the precedent set by Karnataka?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-25332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25337,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25332\/revisions\/25337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}