Category: Betting and Gambling
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Regulatory Dilemma Regarding Indian Esports Gambling And The Urgent Need To Act
“In gambling, the many must lose in order that the few may win” – George Bernard Shaw Esports is a growing at an unbelievable pace across the world. This frenzy of this phenomenon has gripped India as well. There are various pros and cons which are associated with its developments. The issues of the fledgling…
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Match Manipulation and Inadequacy of Indian Criminal Law
“The integrity of the game is everything” Peter Uberroth Sporting Integrity is one of the most controversial points of the current century. Issues such as doping, betting, gambling, match-manipulation have engulfed the sporting sphere. In India, the issue of match-fixing has sprung up time and again, highlighting the inadequacy of the current system of administration…
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Gujarat High Court folds on Poker
By Sakshi Pawar (Co-founder and Managing Editor of KhelAdhikar). “A man has got to play the cards that was dealt him” This has been true for the poker players and enthusiasts in India in both their professional and legal battles. Poker coming under the ambit of state legislation is still not legally allowed to be…
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POKER FACE-S BAN IN GUJARAT: Pre-empting the Legal Arguments
The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.- Chris Moneymaker The legalization of poker has been a contentious for quite some time now. For the past few months, Gujarat High Court is deliberating upon its legality in its territorial extent. The Gujarat High Court decision scheduled on 23 November 2017, will…
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India’s Safest Bet- Legalising of Gambling
By Sakshi Pawar and Rishika Mendiratta (Founder and Managing Editor at KhelAdhikar) As we go past celebrating another National Sports Day, we can be positive about the future of Indian sports. There have been various initiatives by the government and the private players alike to help India become a greater sporting nation. However there is…
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