Ban online gaming with stakes, recommends Justice Chandru Committee
The HinduThe Justice K. Chandru Committee, which looked into the adverse effects of online gaming with stakes, has recommended that the Tamil Nadu government ban it as well as In its report, which was submitted to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Monday, the panel also recommended that the State government insist on the Union government enacting a national-level law against online gaming with stakes under Article 252 of the Constitution. As a previous legislation banning online games with stakes was struck down by the Madras High Court, the panel recommended that the State government come up with a new legislation outside the earlier framework. Though legislation banning online gaming was enacted by the Tamil Nadu Assembly in February last year, the Madras High Court struck it down in August that year.