India, April 29 -- The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has issued an advisory urging VPN service providers and intermediaries to stop enabling access to blocked online betting and prediction market platforms like Polymarket. 

The ministry said that VPN service providers are bound by due diligence obligations under the IT Rules, 2021 to ensure that their platforms are not used for hosting, transmitting any information that violates any law that is in force in the country.

"It is observed that certain users are circumventing the legal restrictions imposed on such platforms by misusing VPN services to access these websites. In addition, such users are engaging in financial transactions through conversion of ...