{"id":9642,"date":"2020-09-03T21:53:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=9642"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:09:23","slug":"india-bans-online-gambling-in-andhra-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-bans-online-gambling-in-andhra-pradesh","title":{"rendered":"India bans online gambling in Andhra Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Online gambling operators could face prison following the decision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Authorities in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh have taken a decision to ban online gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In India the national government allows individual states to regulate gambling. At a cabinet meeting yesterday, the state approved an amendment to the 1974 Gaming Act to establish a ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the amendment, online gambling operators could face a year in prison, which could rise to two years for repeat offenders. Players could be jailed for up to six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local media reports, chief minister Yeduguri Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy said the decision had been taken because authorities believed online gambling on popular games such as rummy and poker was becoming a vice and was harmful to young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/indian-court-pushes-for-online-gaming-regulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">court ruling in another state<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in India recently called for the regulation of online gambling as a way to attract investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online gambling operators could face prison following the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Andhra Pradesh, India, has enacted a ban on online gambling through an amendment to its 1974 Gaming Act. This legislative action imposes severe penalties, including imprisonment for both operators (up to two years) and players (up to six months), citing concerns over social harm. This decision highlights the fragmented regulatory landscape within India, contrasting with other states exploring regulated frameworks for investment.","focusai_entities":"Yeduguri Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy","focusai_location":"India","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.9), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Divergence Impact?","query":"How will Andhra Pradesh's stringent prohibition on online gambling influence the ongoing regulatory discourse and potential for a unified framework across other Indian states, particularly those considering a regulated market for investment attraction?"},{"label":"Operator Risk Mitigation?","query":"What specific governance and compliance frameworks must B2C operators and B2B suppliers implement to mitigate criminal liability and operational risk following the Andhra Pradesh ban, especially concerning geo-blocking and player data management?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16334],"tags":[58,4138,337],"class_list":["post-9642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-india","tag-online-gambling","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9659,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions\/9659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}