The transfer petitions filed by the Union of India were listed before SC’s bench comprising Justices Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan.

SC disposed of the petitions with a direction to the high courts to transfer the case records to the SC within one week. SC’s registry was thereafter asked to notify the matters before SC at the earliest.

Parties were also allowed to file the case records directly with the SC.

Any new challenge to the Online Money Gaming Act will be heard only by the SC. The court directed:

We make it clear that if there is any challenge to the [Act] before any other High Court, the same shall not be entertained and the entire matter shall stand transferred to this court.