Taking the ongoing debate on the betting, spot fixing controversy in Indian cricket to a serious level, the Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy on Thursday called for regulating gambling through a new legal frame work in its First Issue Brief entitled Twisted Willow: Gambling, Sport & Cricket in India.
Seeking to clear intellectual and moral confusion around the issue of gambling itself, the Centre’s three young research scholars dug deep into the worrisome aspect of betting in all its ramifications and studied the legal framework and found its paternalistic attitude towards gambling and its focus on prohibition and punishment out of tune with modern day ground reality.
Distinguishing betting (gambling) from other crimes and vices like cheating and fraud, the Hindu Centre in its Issue Brief suggested that “there is a need to have the right to do wrong”.
Elaborating, the three young authors of the 32-page report - Rajgopal Saikumar, Abhishek Mukherjee and Harsimran Kalra - said that the suggestion implied a fundamental liberty to make choices and “Wrong” implies certain victimless, amoral wrongs such as gambling.
“Based on the importance of liberty and individual choice, we suggest that the law not prohibit gambling but make a moral philosophical argument for regulating gambling,” the Hindu Centre Issue Brief said.
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