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The Telangana state government on 5th December informed the High Court that it has filed a transfer petition in the Supreme Court in a batch of writ petitions filed by parent companies of online rummy brands A23, RummyCircle, Junglee Rummy and Classic Rummy in a bid to consolidate the matters along with appeals filed by the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka governments against striking down of similar...

A single judge bench of the Karnataka High Court headed by Justice SR Krishna Kumar on 17th November concluded hearing arguments in a batch of writ petitions Gameskraft Technologies Private Limited and its directors/key managerial persons against a show-cause notice of around Rs. 21,000 crores (around US$ 2.5 billion) for misclassification of their activities. Last month and earlier this month...

The 8-member Group of Ministers (GoM) formed by the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council to look into valuation and taxation for online gaming, casinos and race courses conducted yet another meeting on 22nd November, 2022 to finalise its recommendations on the taxation and valuation mechanism for online gaming, casinos and horse racing. As per media reports, although the GoM headed by Meghalaya...

In a dramatic u-turn, the Meghalaya cabinet led by Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on 9th November, 2022 approved an ordinance to repeal the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021 (“MRGA”). The MRGA was passed last year to regulate and license both games of skill as well as games of chance online as well as in physical premises. The state government had issued three provisional licenses to...

Websites of around 15 offshore betting and gambling websites- Parimatch, Fairplay, Betway, Bet635, 10Cric, 1xBet, 22Bet, Dafabet, Fun88, Rajabet, SkyBet, Jeetwin, Cricbaba and Wolf777 are inaccessible on several internet service providers since around 19th October purportedly as a result of an order by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology asking internet service providers to...

A single judge bench of the Karnataka High Court headed by Justice SR Krishna Kumar heard a bunch of writ petitions by Gameskraft Technologies Private Limited and its directors/key managerial persons against a show-cause notice of around Rs. 21,000 crores (around US$ 2.5 billion) for misclassification of their activity as service over three sittings on 27th , 28th and 29th October, 2022...

The Tamil Nadu legislative assembly on 19th October passed the Tamil Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Bill, 2022 (“Bill”). The Bill was introduced by law minister S. Reghupathy and passed by the assembly by voice vote. Similar to the Ordinance approved by Governor RN Ravi on 1 st October, the Bill while referring to the addictiveness of online games and suicides...