Legal Tangle

By Adv. Sreeraj Muralidharan, BBM, FCS, LLB, CFORA Email: Advsreerajm@gmail.com Mob: +91-9778307400    1.      Introduction: The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025 (“PRoG Act”) represents the most sweeping reform in India’s gaming landscape in my recent memory. In one legislative stroke, Parliament has outlawed all online money games, whether of skill or chance, while simultaneously promoting e-sports and educational/social games as legitimate pursuits. The Act, however, raises profound constitutional questions. It unsettles decades of judicial precedent that distinguished between gambling and games of skill, touches upon the delicate federal balance between the Union and the States, and imposes sweeping prohibitions with far-reaching consequences for industry, investment, and employment. 2.      Games, e-Games, and Their Social Imprint The Indian gaming ecosystem has long been diverse. On one end lie e-sport...

    By Adv Sreeraj Muralidharan,  BBM, FCS, LLB, CFORA  Email: advsreerajm@gmail.com Mob: +91-9778307400   Introduction: Between Technology and Constitutionalism In an era where governance is increasingly driven by automation and algorithmic logic, we find ourselves facing a peculiar jurisprudential dilemma: what happens when software, rather than statutory scrutiny, determines the fate of an individual’s legal status? This is not a rhetorical question but a very real crisis afflicting India’s LLP framework, where the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), via its Straight Through Processing (STP) mechanism, permits the removal of a partner from a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) through a mere online form submission. What ensues is not merely a corporate anomaly but a constitutional miscarriage. Through this article, I wish to draw attention to how this STP-driven removal process violates Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India and requir...