{"id":985902,"date":"2026-01-16T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985902"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:24:54","slug":"relief-for-winzo-why-karnataka-high-court-extends-protection-to-co-founder-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/relief-for-winzo-why-karnataka-high-court-extends-protection-to-co-founder-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief for Winzo? Why Karnataka High Court extends protection to co-founder \u2013 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka High Court extended interim protection to Saumya Rathore, co-founder and director of WinZO Games, an online gaming platform. With this protection, the High Court has restrained ED from taking any coercive action against her while a jurisdictional challenge to the agency\u2019s probe remains pending, Storyboard18 reported. <\/p>\n<p>The Storyboard18 report further said that a bench headed by Justice M. Nagaprasanna said the interim relief granted earlier would continue and scheduled the matter for final hearing on January 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka High Court extended interim protection to Saumya Rathore, co-founder and director of WinZO Games, an online gaming platform. With this protection, the High Court has restrained ED from taking any coercive action against her while a jurisdictional challenge to the agency\u2019s probe remains pending, Storyboard18 reported. The Storyboard18 report further said that a bench headed by Justice M. Nagaprasanna said the interim relief granted earlier would continue and scheduled the matter for final hearing on January 23.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985902","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=985902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}