The Union government was only interested in the revenue online games could generate through the GST and was not considering the loss of lives because of the online games, Tamil Nadu’s Law Minister S. Regupathy said in Chennai on Thursday, July 20, 2023.
During an interaction with the reporters, Mr. Regupathy said the government has to explain its stand to the people without getting into the details of the case being heard in the court against the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling Act, 2022.
Recalling that the judgment of the Madras High Court, which struck down the Tamil Nadu Gaming and Police Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021, that nothing would prevent an appropriate legislation by the State government, the Minister said that State government had enacted the fresh legislation availing its authority provided in the State List in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution.
