Supreme Court refuses to lift P&H HC stay on cheating case against WinZo

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with a Punjab and Haryana High Court order staying further proceedings in a cheating case against online gaming platform WinZO and its director Saumya Singh over allegations that the platform used BOTs to defeat real-money players [Dinesh Kumar Vs Winzo].

However, the Bench of Justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh requested the High Court to endeavour to dispose of the quashing petition filed by WinZo on or before June 15.

"Though we find force in the submission by Mr (Gaurav) Aggarwal that the Court, as a matter of course, shall not interfere with the investigation from going on, the fact remains that the final hearing is fixed on May 26. Only on that premise, we are not inclined to interfere with the impugned order,” the Supreme Court observed.

The case arose from allegations that WinZO deployed BOTs to defeat genuine players in real-money games.

Before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, WinZO and its director Saumya Singh argued that the complainant had played 7,522 games on the platform between September 2021 and April 2024.

In May 2024, he allegedly told the company that he had lost ₹5.8 lakh and claimed that he had been defeated by BOTs. He later revised the amount lost to ₹6.5 lakh.

Singh denied the allegations after which the complainant allegedly asked that the complaint be closed.

WinZO argued that despite this, the complainant continued to play on the platform and played 9,261 more games between May 2024 and May 2025. He then filed a complaint before Cyber Crime Police Station at Gurugram alleging losses of ₹42 lakh.

While that complaint was pending, he filed a second complaint in November 2025 on identical facts leading to the present first information report (FIR).

WinZo then moved the High Court to quash this FIR.

WinZO pointed out that four similar FIRs had either been quashed or closed by cancellation reports.

On April 9, the High Court issued notice on WinZO’s plea. It did not quash the FIR or decide the allegations finally, but stayed further proceedings in the case till the next date of hearing.

The complainant then moved the Supreme Court against the stay order.

The top court today refused to interfere with the same.

The Petitioner was represented by Senior Advocate Gaurav Agarwal

Winzo was represented by Senior Advocates Siddharth Agarwal and Abhishek Malhotra.