{"id":37952,"date":"2015-06-13T05:50:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T05:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=37952"},"modified":"2015-06-13T05:50:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T05:50:04","slug":"hc-asks-tn-govt-to-consider-preventive-steps-against-mlm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-asks-tn-govt-to-consider-preventive-steps-against-mlm","title":{"rendered":"HC asks TN Govt to consider preventive steps against MLM"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37864\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/madras-high-court.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37864\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/helmets-for-2-wheeler-riders-must-from-july-1-in-tn\/madras-high-court-9\" 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appropriate publicity, so that people are not lured by such schemes,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The greed for extracting money without realising the pitfalls has resulted in public being misled into investing in these MLM&#8217;s,&#8221; a bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice TS Sivagnanam said disposing of a PIL.<\/p>\n<p>Petitioner V R Othisamy had sought a direction to the government and the Police authorities to take necessary action by framing appropriate guidelines to prevent and stop running of any business in the name of MLMs.<\/p>\n<p>The court said MLM was a scheme involving exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people to earn more by simple method of introducing new members to grow in the pyramid.<\/p>\n<p>The PIL was filed in the background of an MLM in Erode collecting Rs 800 crore investments from public and defaulting on interest and principal repayment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court has 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