A social worker from Mumbai filed a public interest petition in the High Court to ban advertisements of online gambling sites

MUMBAI: A social activist has filed a petition in the court arguing that young people are lured by the advertisements of cricketers and actors and end up in gambling. The petition seeks a ban on online gambling advertisements by celebrities. A social activist from Navi Mumbai has filed a public interest petition in the Maharashtra High Court. After this application, it will not be surprising if big cricketers and Bollywood celebrities start making rounds of the court in a short time.

On the one hand we consider gambling as a crime by saying that gambling is bad. On the other hand, only those who have reached high positions in the society give it encouragement. Be it Bollywood celebrities or famous faces of the cricket world, these people are making millions of youth addicted to gambling for the lure of some money. A social activist from Mumbai has filed such an application in the Maharashtra High Court. Due to which celebrities, cricketers and film stars will have to face court pressure in the case of gambling advertisements.

Gambling is banned in which states?

The petition also stated that as citizens get involved in gambling and incur financial losses and create social problems, the states of Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Nagaland, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Telangana and Karnataka have introduced legislation banning online gambling as gambling activity.

There has been a flurry of online games that promote online playing or gambling. As many famous actors advertise such games, the youth are falling into this trap. Such online gambling leads to financial ruin. Hence ban on advertising of online games or such game applications. Also, a public interest petition has been filed in the High Court requesting the central and state governments to take legal action against such games that violate the provisions of the Maharashtra Gambling Prohibition Act.

A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Upadhyay is likely to hear the plea filed by Navi Mumbai social activist Rajendra Patil through advocate Vinod Sangvikar soon. Although Rummy is a traditional card game, it has been brought into a digital avatar and made into an online game. It offers cash prizes as well as different types of prizes as many people play at the same time. Things like entry fees to participate in the game or wagering money for the game can increase the risk of wagering more money to win more money in an online game. Hence this amount comes in gambling.