{"id":777001708,"date":"2023-01-24T13:18:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777001708"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:17:55","slug":"india-man-arrested-for-allegedly-gambling-on-ludo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-man-arrested-for-allegedly-gambling-on-ludo","title":{"rendered":"India: man arrested for allegedly gambling on Ludo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The man allegedly used a website to gamble on the board game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

India.- A 26-year-old man was arrested in Memnagar, Ahmedabad<\/strong>, on Sunday evening (January 22) for allegedly gambling on Ludo online. Police officer Prakash Ramesh<\/strong> said he and colleague Vishwarajsinh Hardevsinh<\/strong> were on patrol when they received information that a man was playing the board game near Manav Mandir bus station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Times of India reported that the police officers found Dhaval Goswami<\/strong> has won Rs 8,000 playing via a website. They are reported to have taken screenshots of the game and charged Goswami with gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To date, apart from the Supreme Court\u2019s precedent on skill-based gambling, there is no federal statute to govern India\u2019s gambling industry, with each state taking its own stance on the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last December, Ashwini Vaishnaw<\/strong>, India\u2019s minister of railways, communications and electronics and information technology says the government would formulate a <\/strong>law on online gaming<\/a>. According to Business Standard, Vaishnaw met with the information technology ministers of all states to receive their input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaishnaw said all ministers were concerned about addiction. He said: \u201cWe have taken up a very serious consultation process with all stakeholders. We will be able to come up with a proper policy very soon which might even involve a new law or a regulation, he explained.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The man allegedly used a website to gamble on the board game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":34643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A 26-year-old individual was arrested in Ahmedabad, India, for allegedly engaging in online Ludo gambling, winning Rs 8,000. This incident highlights the fragmented regulatory landscape in India, where gambling laws are state-specific, absent a federal statute, despite a Supreme Court precedent on skill-based gaming. The Indian government, through Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, is actively consulting with states to formulate a new federal law or regulation for online gaming, driven by concerns over addiction.","focusai_entities":"Dhaval Goswami, Prakash Ramesh, Vishwarajsinh Hardevsinh, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Supreme Court, The Times of India, Business Standard","focusai_location":"India, Ahmedabad, Memnagar","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India Gaming Law Impact","query":"What specific provisions are anticipated in India's proposed federal online gaming law, and how might they differentiate between games of skill and chance, impacting current state-level interpretations and B2C licensing?"},{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Trends","query":"How will the recent arrest for online Ludo gambling in Ahmedabad influence the enforcement posture of other Indian states, particularly those without explicit online gaming regulations, ahead of a unified federal framework?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777001708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777001708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777001713,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777001708\/revisions\/777001713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777001708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777001708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777001708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}