
Madras HC declines interim relief to online gaming firms challenging regulations on real money games
New Indian ExpressCHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Wednesday refused to pass any interim orders on the petitions filed by online gaming platforms challenging the Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Authority’s newly introduced regulations on real money games. The petitions included Play Games 24x7 Private Limited, Head Digital Works Private Limited, Junglee Games India Private Limited. These companies have challenged the Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Activity Regulations, 2025. Moreover, online gaming platforms have also challenged the regulations providing for compulsory pop-up caution alerts every thirty minutes after the first hour of play, setting daily, weekly, and monthly monetary limits for playing the games and the connected alert message; and a mandatory display of caution alert of ‘online game is addictive’.
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