States authorised to regulate gambling, not online gaming: MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar reiterated on Friday. The Minister, who was speaking on the sidelines of the inauguration of the 6 MV Medical Linear Accelerator (LINAC) System, developed and deployed by Sameer (Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research) in Chennai, said States were authorised to regulate gambling but not online gaming.
«I know Tamil Nadu has come up with a law but it makes no sense to me that a State government will try and regulate a participant on the internet,» he said while addressing the press. «It is not possible.
The online gaming rules that have been notified after almost three months of consultation basically say what types of online games are allowed on the Indian internet.» He went on to add that the three types of games that are not allowed are those online games that involve betting and wagering, addiction and user harm or toxicity against a woman, anti-religion, anti-child and the like. The Minister's comments come on the same day that the Delhi High Court heard a plea by a Noida-based NGO Soch that moved the court against the government's online gaming rules.
The plea came up for hearing today before a Bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Narula. The Court called on Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Chetan Sharma to assist it in the matter and listed the case for further consideration on July 13.
ET had reported on Thursday that the NGO had filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the constitutional and legislative validity of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2023 in relation to online gaming. The petition stated that the Rules are beyond the
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