O R D E R

(Order of the Court was delivered by N.KIRUBAKARAN, J)

This Public Interest Litigation has been filed for a noble object of prohibiting online gambling. The Petitioner contends that precious lives are lost because of the online rummy hosted by gambling websites as people are getting addicted. Therefore, the Petitioner gave a representation on 26.10.2020, to prohibit the online rummy. As it was not considered, the Petitioner has come before this Court.

2.When the matter came up for admission on 03.11.2020, this Court passed the following order:

“It is disheartening to note that about ten precious lives have been lost due to the online gambling. Therefore, this Writ Petition has been filed before this Court seeking for issuance of a Writ of Mandamus to direct the official respondents to take appropriate action to ban Online Rummy hosted by the seventh respondent and others.

2. One of us (The Honourable Mr.Justice B.PUGALENDHI)

while disposing of Crl.O.P.(MD)No.6568 of 2020, by order dated 24.07.2020 went into detail as to how this Online Gambling in the name of online games is causing loss of lives and insisting a necessity to regulate the programmes on par with the Telangana Sta