{"id":1012239,"date":"2026-06-04T09:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012239"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:06:34","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-state-powers-to-curb-online-betting-and-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/04\/supreme-court-upholds-state-powers-to-curb-online-betting-and-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court upholds state powers to curb online betting and gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has held that states possess the legislative authority to enact laws restricting or prohibiting online games such as rummy, poker and other forms of gambling, wagering and skill-based gaming in the interest of maintaining &#8220;public order&#8221; and preventing the &#8220;degradation and exploitation of youth and their hard-earned money&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The ruling came as the apex court allowed separate appeals filed by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka against judgments of the Madras High Court and the Karnataka High Court, which had struck down the constitutional validity of laws enacted by the respective states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has held that states possess the legislative authority to enact laws restricting or prohibiting online games such as rummy, poker and other forms of gambling, wagering and skill-based gaming in the interest of maintaining &#8220;public order&#8221; and preventing the &#8220;degradation and exploitation of youth and their hard-earned money&#8221;. The ruling came as the apex court allowed separate appeals filed by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka against judgments of the Madras High Court and the Karnataka High Court, which had struck down the constitutional validity of laws enacted by the respective states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012250,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012239\/revisions\/1012250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}