months because of losing money while gambling online has issued notices to celebrities endorsing such platforms.
Virat Kohli endorses online gambling application, MPL while Saurav Ganguly endorses My 11Circle which has become quote popular these days.
Madras HC issued notices to both the cricketers and directed to issue notices to actors Tamannaah Bhatia, Rana Daggubati, Sudeep and Prakash Raj.
Notably, many other cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah also either endorse or appear in online gaming apps that involve financial transactions. However, they have not been served as yet.
It effectively amounts to gambling as the applications are being operated taking advantage of unclear and inadequate law relating to online gambling.
People get lured into such traps and end up getting addicted or commit suicide, court noted.
The court passed this order in a writ petition filed by Mr. S. Muthukumar.