The All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) says Tamil Nadu’s online gaming ban is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
India.- The All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) has filed a petition in the Madras High Court (HC) against the\u00a0online gaming ban<\/a> passed by the Tamil Nadu state government. The new law, which\u00a0came into effect on April 21<\/a>, bans online gambling and requires rummy and poker sites to geo-block users in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AIGF CEO\u00a0Roland Landers<\/strong>\u00a0had previously said the organisation was going to contest the legality of the legislation, arguing that \u201cit conflated games of skill with games of chance.\u201d According to the AIGF,\u00a0the new law violates the fundamental right to trade and commerce\u00a0guaranteed by the Indian constitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Authority and Regulation of Online Games Rules bans all online games with stakes, without differentiating between games of skill and games of chance. However, the AIGF argues that a ban on skill games like poker and rummy is illegal, unconstitutional, arbitrary, and against previous judgments of the High Courts and the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A previous Supreme Court ruling classified these as games of skill under Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution of India and deemed them legal. Fantasy games like Dream11 and MPL are also included in the category of skill-based games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Tamil Nadu government has established an Online Gaming Authority to regulate online gaming in the state. The new legislation imposes\u00a0fines of Rs 5,000\u00a0<\/strong>and three months imprisonment for violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) says Tamil Nadu’s online gaming ban is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777004926,"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 All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) has filed a petition in the Madras High Court challenging Tamil Nadu's new online gaming ban. The AIGF argues the legislation is unconstitutional, conflating games of skill with games of chance, which violates fundamental rights and contradicts previous Supreme Court rulings. This legal action seeks to overturn the ban impacting skill-based games like poker, rummy, and fantasy sports.","focusai_entities":"All India Gaming Federation (AIGF), Madras High Court, Tamil Nadu state government, Supreme Court, Roland Landers, Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Authority and Regulation of Online Games Rules, Dream11, MPL","focusai_location":"India, Tamil Nadu","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.99), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.75), investor_analyst (0.93), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Legal Precedent Impact","query":"What are the potential implications of the Madras High Court's ruling on the AIGF's petition for the broader regulatory landscape of online skill gaming across other Indian states?"},{"label":"Operator Market Strategy","query":"How might this legal challenge influence the market entry and operational strategies of iGaming operators and B2B suppliers targeting the Indian market, particularly concerning state-level regulatory divergence?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16334],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-777004675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004675","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=777004675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004692,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004675\/revisions\/777004692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777004926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}