The government of Telangana is not taking any chances when it comes to its laws against gambling.

Several months ago, authorities in the Indian state issued two ordinances amending the Telangana’s Gaming Act of 1974 to ban online gambling. The first, called the Telangana State Gaming (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017, added new definition of “cyber space” in the gaming legislation to make betting and gambling through the internet illegal. This means that playing online matka, sports betting, poker and rummy in the state will now incur criminal penalties.

After receiving backlash from online rummy operators, the state government pushed for a second amendment, this time adding the words “online gaming with stakes” to the definition of gaming as well as the general description of the term “gaming,” while also deleting Section 15 of the state’s Gaming Act of 1974, which exempts ‘games of skill’ from the ambit of gambling, and replacing it with a new provision authorizing the Telangana government “to issue an order within two years from the date of issue of the Ordinance to remove difficulties in implementation of the Gaming Act.”

The thing is, the state’s gaming decrees have a short life span.