Various state laws allow gaming sites, tough to block them: Centre to HC
The Centre told the Delhi High Court on Thursday that blocking of online gaming sites, including those of card games, was " technologically infeasible " as many states have enacted laws which partially or fully allow such activities. The submission on affidavit was made before a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) which said that it has to be determined first whether the games on the sites involved games of skill or chance in order to block them for propagating gambling activities. The Delhi government told the court it can only take action if a gambling site was being hosted in the national capital or if there were instances of offline gambling. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its affidavit, has said it has taken each and every step under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) to prohibit, forbid and bar any kind of transaction which was illegal and contrary to forex ...