Industry mulling legal challenge among options as LS passes online gaming bill

Approaching courts is one of the options that senior gaming industry executives are considering, as they huddle together to discuss the next steps with the Lok Sabha on Wednesday passing the bill that proposes to ban all online games involving a monetary component.

Executives and lawyers told ET that courts had previously ruled in favour of skill-based gaming, citing the fundamental right under the Constitution to carry out trade and occupation among other reasons, and that the new law too could possibly be legally challenged on those grounds once…