India’s gaming laws are out of sync with its Constitution, giving states the power to legislate on ‘betting and gambling’ and thereby exposing the nation’s legal sector to controversy.
Up to a certain extent, ‘skill-based gaming’ is excluded from the applicability of gambling bans across most of the states in India. However, whereas states like Goa allow licensed on-ground operations of gaming activities, states like Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Sikkim have a regulatory regime for the online gaming environment.
Please refer to the below document to read the full article by Sidharrth Shankar, published in Indian Express.
Sidharrth (Sid) is a seasoned corporate lawyer and also the co-chair of the corporate practice with a core focus on private equity and mergers & acquisitions. Sid has substantial experience advising global private equity funds, multinational corporations and strategic investors on complex cross-border transactions across a broad spectrum of industries over the last two and a half decades, with over two decades in JSA itself.