Bengaluru Court Remands Gameskraft Founders To 14-Day Judicial Custody In Money Laundering Case
A special court at Bengaluru on Tuesday (May 19) remanded the founders of gaming company Gameskraft Technologies— Deepak Singh, Vikas Taneja and Prithvi Raj Singh, to 14 days of judicial custody in a money laundering case initiated by the Enforcement Directorate.
The development comes two weeks after the platform founders were remanded to ED's custody on two separate occasions by the same court since their arrest on May 8.
ED has accused Gameskraft of tampering with the game results and luring customers to make large deposits.
The Principal City Civil & Sessions Judge M Chandrasekhar Reddy remanded the founders to judicial custody till June 2, 2026.
Yesterday, the founders argued before the Karnataka High Court that their arrest in the PMLA case was not based on any new tangible material, and questioned the agency on what prevented it from issuing a summons instead of outrightly arresting them. They further argued that the arrest was a predetermined exercise to bypass an earlier stay order granted in an identical matter.
For context, the Karnataka High Court on January 22 had stayed ED's investigation against Gameskraft Technologies after a closure report was filed in the FIR registered for the predicate offence at Bengaluru, noting that once the FIR is closed, the foundation for ECIR from November 2025 had vanished.
The three FIRs against Gameskraft directors were registered in Telangana on January 24, February 10, and February 12, 2026, respectively after the High Court's stay order in the Bengaluru ECIR due to a closure report from the police. The aforesaid three FIRs formed the foundation as the predicate offences for registering the fresh ECIR against the directors.
Gameskraft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (GTPL), an online intermediary company incorporated in June 2017 that runs technology platforms, allowed users to play skill-based online games against each other, such as real money rummy games. The company had over 10 Lakh users from across India, and is currently headquartered in Bangalore.
Case title: