The Karnataka government on Wednesday submitted to the Karnataka High Court that the new amendments to boycott wagering and betting in online games were pointed toward saving the adolescent from becoming addicts and their families from falling into profound obligations.

The gaming platforms, the government said, were causing addiction among the young and surprisingly drove some of them into suicide.

The government clarified its substitute for a detailed statement of complaints, countering the contentions brought up in a group of writ petitions.

Justice Krishna S Dixit started hearing writ petitions filed by a couple of online gaming organizations and the All India Gaming Federation (AIGF), moving the new amendments to the Karnataka Police Act, 1963.

Senior advocates Abhishek Singhvi and Aravind Datar contended for the candidates while Advocate General Prabhulinga Navadgi showed up for the state.

The petitioners appealed for announcing the law as illegal because it disregarded the basic privileges revered under Articles 14, 19, and 21 of the Constitution. They likewise contended that the Karnataka Legislature came up short on the skill to pass such a law while looking for bearings to restrain police and other authorities from making a coercive move against petitioners under the provisions of the new law.

The government presented that none of the online portals completely cautioned or unveiled to their users how they would disperse the prize money. Players went through immense amounts of cash tricked by the guarantee of rewarding however subtle profits from wagers.

The Karnataka Legislature was well inside its authoritative capability to enact the amendments under the Constitution, the government said.

The activity of wagering on the occurrence of an uncertain occasion is similar to liquor abuse and drug abuse. There are overpowering reasons to disallow gambling money on the incident of an unsure occasion in a game of chance or of skill, the government proclamation said, and added the amendments had been brought to counter-pressing social wickedness.

Karnataka’s law doesn’t experience the ill effects of the “crassness of conditions that distressed ” the Tamil Nadu law which was as of late struck down by the Madras High Court.

The amendments don’t boycott online “games of chance” or “game of skill”, they limit individuals from gambling money “on the occurrence of an unsure occasion, and online platforms are precluded from actuating naïve public with the draw of impossible prizes,” the statement read.

The state stood up that the petitioners have not given any details regarding the idea of the exercises performed by them. They are purposely quiet regarding the idea of games and exercises regulated on their foundation.

The government said since the results that follow from gambling money in a game of chance and game of skill are comparative, there was no compelling reason to treat them unexpectedly.

The arguments were uncertain and will continue on Thursday.

Credits: The Economic Times