Legalise betting in sports: Court
At a time when the gentleman’s game of cricket is embroiled in controversies like betting and spot-fixing in the entire world clubbing with the fact that in the subcontinent in India, where cricket is believed to be a religion, Tis Hazari Court additional sessions judge (ASJ) Dharmesh Sharma has suggested that betting in cricket and other sports should be legalised in the country as the police has failed to check the menace and huge unaccounted money generated through the illegal activity was being pumped into terror activities and drug trafficking.
The court said, if betting would be legalised it would not only help the government to track the transfer of money but would also generate revenue which would be used in public welfare.
The court observed, “It does not need divine eyes to see that ‘satta’ in cricket and other games is reaching an alarming situation. The extent of money that it generated is diverted to clandestine and sinister objectives like drug trafficking and terrorist activities.”
The court said further that it is high time that our legislature should seriously consider legalising the system of betting so that enough revenue can be generated to fund infrastructural requirements for the common man and thus check the lucrative business in organised crime. It said that the betting activity was going on in the country as the police failed to take proper action.
The court made the remarks while allowing an appeal by Prashant Kumar Mallik and Vicky Grover, who were held guilty of betting under the Delhi Police Gambling Act by a lower court.
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