Dream11 co-founder Bhavit Sheth said that a Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment in 2017, which went in their favour, has allayed fears over the game. The game, on its website and mobile app, also asserts that the Supreme Court, in 2017, dismissed a challenge to the High Court decision. In 2017, a single-judge bench of the Gujarat High Court held that “a game of skill… played with stakes may be considered as gambling”. This January, the Kerala High Court ruled that “games of skills played for stakes amounts of offence of gambling”. In the US, lawyer Behnam Dayanim wrote in ‘Gambling Law Review’ that a number of state attorney generals have asserted that fantasy games were “illegal gambling under state laws”.

Source: Indian Express May 06, 2019 23:05 UTC