A bench of Acting Chief Justice T Raja and Justice D Krishnakumar granted the petitioners the liberty to approach the court again whenever such ordinance/ law comes into force.
The Federation and the other petitioners had challenged the constitutional validity of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Ordinance, 2022.
They had claimed that in India only ‘games of chance’ and not ‘games of skill’ can be banned. The petitioners said in their pleas that the TN government had wrongly classified games such as rummy and poker, which require skill, as games of chance. This was done so that such games could be banned through the new ordinance, they said.
When the matter was taken up today, Sibal said that the petitioners had approached court with a “premature prayer,” because in the absence of the ordinance being notified for implementation, they had no cause of action.
Source: Barandbench
