The Supreme Court on Monday sought response of the Centre on a plea seeking directions to the government to prohibit online gambling and betting platforms that allegedly operate under the guise of social and e-sports games.

A bench of justices J B Pardiwala and K V Viswanathan took note of the submissions of lawyer Virag Gupta, counsel for the petitioner, and said that it will hear the plea along with other pending ones on Tuesday.

The bench asked the government to take action on the details about online gaming apps given by the petitioner.

Gupta submitted details of 2,000 betting and gambling apps to the Centre.

The top court was hearing the plea filed by Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC) and Shourya Tiwari that urged it to direct the government to clamp down on t

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