{"id":777023640,"date":"2025-03-04T10:07:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777023640"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:13:12","slug":"court-dismisses-petition-to-reinstate-casino-law-in-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/court-dismisses-petition-to-reinstate-casino-law-in-maharashtra","title":{"rendered":"Court dismisses petition to reinstate casino law in Maharashtra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Maharashtra Casinos Act was repealed in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

India.- The Bombay High Court has dismissed a petition by Dyutbhumi Hotels & Resorts<\/strong> that sought to reenact the Maharashtra Casinos Act, 1976<\/strong>, which was repealed in 2023. Justices Girish Kulkarni<\/strong> and Advait Sethna<\/strong> said the petitioner could not claim any legal right to maintain its petition and that setting aside the Repeal Act of 2023 would not restore the original legislation as its repeal had already taken effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court noted that the law in question had never been enacted and that therefore, the grounds for declaring a law unconstitutional or illegal did not apply.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indian NPO calls for ban on online gambling in Jammu and Kashmir <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Society Forum (JKCSF)<\/strong>, a coalition of non-profit advocacy organisations based in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, has issued a statement calling for the immediate ban on online gambling platforms in the region. It says a rise in online gambling has left many young people in financial distress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abdul Qayoom Wani<\/strong>, chairman of the JKCSF, said: \u201cOnline gambling is not just an individual problem; it is a societal crisis that demands urgent action. We appeal to the government to ban these platforms and save our youth from this destructive path.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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See also:<\/span> Uzbekistan online gambling and lotteries framework to enter force in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Maharashtra Casinos Act was repealed in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":34643,"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 Bombay High Court has dismissed a petition to reenact the Maharashtra Casinos Act, 1976, confirming its repeal and the continued absence of a regulated land-based casino market in the state. Concurrently, the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Society Forum has called for an immediate ban on online gambling platforms in Jammu and Kashmir, citing financial distress among youth and signaling increasing social and regulatory pressure in another key Indian region.","focusai_entities":"Dyutbhumi Hotels & Resorts, Bombay High Court, Girish Kulkarni, Advait Sethna, Jammu and Kashmir Civil Society Forum (JKCSF), Abdul Qayoom Wani","focusai_location":"India, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar, Uzbekistan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.8), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Maharashtra Legal Precedent","query":"What are the long-term implications of the Bombay High Court's ruling that the Maharashtra Casinos Act was 'never enacted' for future legislative efforts to establish a regulated land-based casino market in the state?"},{"label":"J&K Ban Likelihood","query":"Given the increasing social advocacy, what is the probability of the Jammu and Kashmir government implementing a ban on online gambling, and what would be the immediate operational and market access impact for existing operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,16334],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777023640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777023640","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=777023640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777023640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777023654,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777023640\/revisions\/777023654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777023640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777023640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777023640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}