{"id":962209,"date":"2025-09-17T09:09:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962209"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:12:33","slug":"karnataka-hc-stays-eds-move-to-summon-congress-mlas-lawyer-in-online-betting-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/17\/karnataka-hc-stays-eds-move-to-summon-congress-mlas-lawyer-in-online-betting-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka HC stays ED\u2019s move to summon Congress MLA\u2019s lawyer in online betting case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday stayed the enforcement directorate\u2019s (ED) moves to summon advocate Anil Gowda, a legal consultant to Congress MLA from Chitradurga KC Veerendra (Puppy) in a money laundering case over illegal online and offline betting and gambling. <\/p>\n<p>Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum said that the summons were stayed until the Supreme Court decides on a pending question over the scope of ED\u2019s powers in summoning lawyers. The court said the ED was restrained from taking any coercive action against petitioner Gowda until further orders or until the Supreme Court settled the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday stayed the enforcement directorate\u2019s (ED) moves to summon advocate Anil Gowda, a legal consultant to Congress MLA from Chitradurga KC Veerendra (Puppy) in a money laundering case over illegal online and offline betting and gambling. Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum said that the summons were stayed until the Supreme Court decides on a pending question over the scope of ED\u2019s powers in summoning lawyers. The court said the ED was restrained from taking any coercive action against petitioner Gowda until further orders or until the Supreme Court settled the issue.<\/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":[34,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962209","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=962209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}