India, Aug. 22 -- President Droupadi Murmu on Friday gave assent to the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, which the Rajya Sabha passed a day earlier.
The law prohibits all online money gaming services, imposing penalties of up to three years imprisonment and fines reaching Rs.1 crore for facilitators. Advertising such platforms carries sentences of up to two years and fines of Rs.50 lakh.
The upper house passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025 in 26 minutes, a day after the Lok Sabha cleared it in seven minutes amid protest by the opposition over procedural concerns.
Union minister for electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw told the MPs in the Parliament that people were losing the...
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