Overview

• The statute received Presidential assent on Aug. 22 yet remains unnotified.
• Head Digital Works, owner of A23 Rummy, petitions against provisions that ban real-money online games regardless of skill, citing violations of Articles 14, 19, 20, 21 and 301.
• The company asks that notification be withheld or that it receive one week’s advance notice to seek interim relief.
• Counsel for the petitioners warn of disruption to over two lakh jobs and to investments worth crores if the law takes effect immediately.
• Solicitor General Tushar Mehta says notification is a constitutional step with extraterritorial implications and indicates he will seek instructions on timing.