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ARTICLE · 05 DECEMBER 2025

Game, Set And Match Monthly – November 2025

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Welcome to the November 2025 edition of Game, Set & Match Monthly, your all-access pass to the latest legal, regulatory, and industry updates in the ever-evolving world of sports and gaming—both in India and internationally.

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GAMING NEWS UPDATE

1. CENTRE DEFENDS ONLINE GAMING ACT 2025 IN SUPREME COURT

The Union government filed an affidavit before the Supreme Court defending the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, against challenges by industry players like Head Digital Works (A23). It highlighted unregulated real-money gaming's links to terror financing, money laundering, drug/human trafficking, and suicides, with Indians losing ₹20,000 crore annually and suspicious transactions surging to over 200 probes in 2023-24 involving ₹5,700 crore remittances. Citing state data (32 suicides in Karnataka 2023-25, 20 in Telangana 2024, 30+ in Tamil Nadu), the Centre argued public safety trumps Article 19(1)(g) business rights, invoking Entries 31/97 of List I for parliamentary competence over digital spaces. The Act bans real-money games but spares esports/non-monetary ones, with the government ready to share classified evidence in sealed cover; High Court cases

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