{"id":777010944,"date":"2023-11-08T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777010944"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:24:35","slug":"india-police-in-agra-shut-illegal-cricket-betting-sites-and-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-police-in-agra-shut-illegal-cricket-betting-sites-and-apps","title":{"rendered":"India: police in Agra shut illegal cricket betting sites and apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authorities discovered that websites and apps were stealing data from broadcasting platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

India.- Police in Agra say they have shut 27 websites and nine mobile applications<\/strong> that were taking cricket bets. An operation was carried out around two weeks ago in response to a complaint about the theft of data from broadcasting platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to India Today, the illicit use of data enabled live streaming of cricket matches and facilitated betting on a ball-by-ball and over-by-over basis. Bookies operating on these betting platforms used foreign websites to place bets on cricket matches.\u00a0According to Police, most of the websites and apps have origins in Dubai or China, making it difficult to catch those responsible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)<\/strong>\u00a0said it had blocked 22 unauthorised betting applications and websites<\/a>, including\u00a0the Mahadev Book betting app<\/a>. The move came after a money laundering probe conducted by\u00a0the Enforcement Directorate (ED)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cricket, a hugely popular sport in India, accounts for 80 to 90 per cent of the total sports betting revenue, drawing over 140 million participants. A report by the\u00a0Think Change Forum (TCF)<\/strong>\u00a0suggests that during the Indian Premier League (IPL) season,\u00a0this number rose to around 370 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities discovered that websites and apps were stealing data from broadcasting platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Indian authorities, including Agra Police and MeitY, have intensified enforcement against illicit online cricket betting operations, shutting down numerous websites and mobile applications. These actions address issues of data theft from broadcasting platforms, facilitating unauthorized live streaming and ball-by-ball wagering, alongside broader money laundering concerns. The crackdown highlights the significant scale of the unregulated market in India, particularly for cricket betting, and underscores ongoing challenges in cross-border enforcement against platforms originating from jurisdictions like Dubai and China.","focusai_entities":"Agra Police, India Today, Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Enforcement Directorate (ED), Think Change Forum (TCF), Mahadev Book","focusai_location":"India, Agra, Dubai, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), affiliate_publisher (0.7), tech_data (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Cross-border Enforcement","query":"What specific international cooperation mechanisms are being explored or implemented to address the cross-border nature of these illicit iGaming operations originating from Dubai and China?"},{"label":"Regulated Market Outlook","query":"How might the intensified enforcement against illicit betting influence the timeline and framework for potential future regulation of the iGaming market in India, particularly given the substantial GGR potential?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777010944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010944","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=777010944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041003,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010944\/revisions\/777041003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777010944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777010944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777010944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}