Law commission proposes online betting curbs in India

Punters in India will only be allowed to make at least three bets online a year if the Law Commission gets its way.

The Tribune reported that India’s Law Commission, an executive body whose major function is to work for legal reform, has prepared a “working paper” outlining the series of regulations aimed at curbing illegal online betting in the country. The document has reportedly been submitted to its members and is up for deliberation in the coming weeks.

A senior functionary of the commission, who requested to remain anonymous, told the news outlet that one of the most stringent regulations that the Law Commission proposed was to limit the number of online bets that an individual can make in a year to three times.

Since they couldn’t ban online betting in India, the functionary pointed out that proposing an online betting cap was the closest thing they could get to prohibition.