India's Supreme Court has upheld India's online gambling ban and rejected a challenge brought by Junglee Games, the operator owned by Flutter Entertainment, according to a report by a single outlet, GamblingNews.
The report does not give a date for the ruling, and no second independent source has confirmed the decision.
According to GamblingNews, Junglee Games challenged laws in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka that prohibit online games played for real money, including skill-based games. The outlet reports that the court held that betting on the outcome can turn a skill-based game into gambling. The court also upheld the ban, per GamblingNews.
It is not known whether the court considered how much of a given game's result depends on skill, or whether it treated a stake on the outcome as sufficient on its own.
GamblingNews also reports that India's online gambling ban was approved in 2025 and took effect in May 2026.
The same outlet says Flutter laid off roughly 350 employees because of the ban. Both the figure and its stated cause are as reported by GamblingNews.
Other gaming companies have also gone to court to challenge the ban's constitutionality, per GamblingNews. The names of those companies and the status of their cases are unknown.
Several questions remain open. It is not clear whether the ruling concerned the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka statutes, the national law, or both. Neither the case reference nor the date of judgment could be established. The published judgment would answer all of these questions and show how the court weighed skill against the stake.
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