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LAsT year in October, the centre issued a strict advisory against showcasing betting advertisements on overthe-top (OTT) platforms, such as Netflix, Hotstar and Amazon Prime Video, as well as private satellite TV platforms, stating that nonobservance of the advisory may invite penal action under the applicable laws.

The central government on Sunday banned over 230 illegal betting, gambling and loan applications, on ‘emergency’ basis, officials familiar with the matter said.

According to an official, the ministry of electronics legal services camp in Uttar Pradesh, as has been done elsewhere, to provide justice at a reasonable cost to the people. “In order to make the judicial system easier, as many as 1,426 old and redundant laws have been removed,” the minister said. “Besides, the old laws prepared during the British period with a colonial mindset would also be given up.”

He said maximum use of the mother tongue during arguments should be encouraged in the interest of litigants, adding that his department has prepared a legal glossary and a book on legal terminology to make this task easier.

Supreme Court justice Krishna Murari, the guest of honour, said he was proud that he was a member of this bar association. Another guest of honour, justice Vikram Nath of the Supreme Court, fondly recalled the days spent in this bar association.

Chief justice Rajesh Bindal said completion of 150 years of the bar association is time for retrospection and be motivation from its past activities.

Earlier, in his welcome address, bar association president Radha Kant Ojha said that certain defects in the collegium system had crept in the recent past. He lauded the law minister for highlighting this issue at the national level. He also pointed out the huge number of vacant posts of judges in the Allahabad high court, which is placing a huge burden on the judges.

Apart from several high court judges and many lawyers, others who shared the dais with the law minister included justice Ramesh Sinha, senior judge of the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court, Uttar Pradesh advocate general Ajay Kumar Misra and bar association senior vice-president Manoj Kumar Mishra.

230 illegal betting, gambling and loan apps

engaging in illegal money laundering & were posing threat to the financial security of our nation,” under section 69(A) of the IT Act.

“The IT ministry has issued blocking orders based on emergency request issued by Nodal officer of ministry of home affairs (MHA),” said an official.

of today’s digital-based gaming activities and the emerging technologies associated with it.” and information technology (MeitY) banned 138 betting/gambling websites and apps and 94 loan apps, which “were

The rationale behind seeking central legislation is also the inconsistency in the state’s laws when it comes to online gambling.

At present, the gambling industry is covered under the ambit of the Public Gambling Act, 1867. The report underscores that this is old legislation which is incapable “of covering/ defending/dealing with the various growing aspects

Last year, the ministry banned 54 Chinese apps which posed threat to India’s security. In June 2020, the government banned 59 apps and later blocked 47 related/cloning apps on August 10, 2020. Later, 118 apps were blocked on September 1, 2020, and another 43 apps on November 19, the same year.