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The Madras High Court, on Wednesday, agreed to hear on Thursday, a batch of instances filed by online gaming corporations difficult the validity of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Act, 2022, for which Governor R.N. Ravi had granted his assent on April 10 this yr.
Justices S. Vaidyanathan and R. Kalaimathi acceded to a request made by Senior Counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi, for early listening to of the instances for the reason that summer season trip for the High Court begins from May 1, and since the petitioner corporations had insisted upon staying the operation of the law forthwith.
The senior choose within the second Division Bench informed Mr. Singhvi that the writ petitions could be listed earlier than the primary Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice T. Raja and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy on Thursday, if the papers had been so as and the instances get numbered by the Registry by at present.
The senior counsel made the point out earlier than the second Division Bench, for the reason that ACJ was in Madurai on Wednesday.
An identical law handed through the tenure of the AIADMK regime was caught down by the High Court in August 2021, on the grounds that there couldn’t be a blanket ban on video games of talent. The then first Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee (since transferred to Meghalaya High Court) and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy had held that a laws imposing a wide-ranging ban have to be considered extreme and disproportionate to the article sought to be achieved.
The Bench had nevertheless, made it clear that the State legislature could be at liberty to enact a new laws for regulating online video games. Thereafter, the Legislative Assembly handed a Bill in October 2022 for a new law. It didn’t obtain the assent of the Governor on the first occasion as he returned it in March 2023.
The Assembly readopted the identical Bill and it acquired his assent in April 2023 main to the current litigation.
