Stakes, Statutes, Seizures: The Fault Lines In India's Gaming Crackdown
Vanshika Sharma, National Law University Odisha
ABSTRACT
India has restructured the legal framework that has safeguarded real money gaming over the past sixty years, employing three different mechanisms to accomplish this. According to the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act 2025, the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, and the GST system, none of these laws has considered one another, and they all ignored the rules from the Supreme Court of India’s 1967 verdict in the case of State of Andhra Pradesh vs K Satyanarayana at the same time. This paper claims that today’s arguments constitute debates about corporate responsibility, not about prohibitions imposed by law. The author proceeds from the analysis of the enforcing of the authorities against WinZO and Probo Media Technologies and Dream Sports, as well as the retrospective conflict related to Gameskraft and a comparison of the latter with the “Black Friday” operation carried out by the US Department of Justice in 2011 during its actions against online poker operators. It identifies the gaps existing in the tax jurisdiction of every statute in terms of corporate responsibility.
