Gameskraft founders' ED arrest illegal: HC
Bengaluru, June 17 -- The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday set aside the arrest of online gaming company Gameskraft's founders Deepak Singh, Vikas Taneja, and Prithviraj Singh by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), terming it illegal, and directed their release from jail.
Justice M Nagaprasanna held that the arrests were contrary to law and ordered that the founders be set at liberty. "Writ petitions are allowed. Arrest of these petitioners is declared contrary to law. As a consequence thereof the petitioners shall be set at liberty forthwith. The Registry is directed to intimate the prison authorities to enable release of these petitioners. (Petition) allowed bearing in mind the observations made."
The court had reserved orders on June 8 on petitions filed by the three founders seeking the quashing of three Enforcement Case Information Reports (ECIRs) arising from predicate offences registered in Telangana between January and February this year.
The ECIRs were registered after the high court stayed an earlier money laundering probe against Gameskraft on January 22, 2026.
At the time, the court noted that a closure report hadbeen filed in the Bengaluru FIR that formed the predicate offence for the earlier ECIR, effectively "removing its foundation."...
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