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Online Gaming: Play by the Rules? Understanding the shifting regulatory landscape

Virtual Webinar

11 June 2025 | 4:30 PM

Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan Attorneys (LKS) is organizing a webinar to analyse the recent Madras High Court judgement upholding the validity of the Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Authority (Real Money Games) Regulation, 2025 read along with the relevant provisions of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Online Gambling and Regulation of Online Games Act, 2022 which were contested to be unconstitutional and arbitrary.

The webinar will inter alia cover the following :

  • Analysis of the Madras High Court Judgement and the implications of the same
  • Legislative competency of the State to regulate games of skill
  • Data Privacy in the context of compliances required under the Tamil Nadu Online Gaming Authority (Real Money Games) Regulation, 2025
  • Conflict between Article 19 v. Article 21 of the Constitution of India – Business rights v. Personal Rights
  • Test on reasonability of restrictions
  • Ideal regulatory framework; Unified regulation through a light-touch, SRO-led model
  • Way forward

Speaker - 

L Badri Narayanan
Executive Partner, LKS