{"id":928509,"date":"2025-05-07T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=928509"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:57:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:27:52","slug":"betting-can-never-be-a-game-of-skill-centre-tells-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/07\/betting-can-never-be-a-game-of-skill-centre-tells-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Betting can never be a game of skill, Centre tells Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Tuesday reiterated its stand that gambling, irrespective of whether it is on a game of skill or chance, will still be categorised as gambling and therefore taxed accordingly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot running on the horse, but when you bet on a horse, is it a game of skill or chance? Horse racing is a competition of speed depending on a variety of changes and uncertain factors. Thus, horse racing has an element of gambling. Betting can never be a game of skill,\u201d Additional Solicitor General (ASG) N Venkataraman, appearing for the Centre, argued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Tuesday reiterated its stand that gambling, irrespective of whether it is on a game of skill or chance, will still be categorised as gambling and therefore taxed accordingly. \u201cNot running on the horse, but when you bet on a horse, is it a game of skill or chance? Horse racing is a competition of speed depending on a variety of changes and uncertain factors. Thus, horse racing has an element of gambling. Betting can never be a game of skill,\u201d Additional Solicitor General (ASG) N Venkataraman, appearing for the Centre, argued.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928509","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=928509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}