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India’s online gaming law bans real-money games and preserves e-sports exception

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India’s parliament passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill 2025 on 22 August, and the president signed it into law on 24 August, the source reports. The law prohibits offering, promoting or financing online money games, with prison terms of up to five years; e-sports and educational games are exempt, and the ministry must notify the act.

Operators must account for the prohibition and its defined exceptions, while e-sports providers remain within the stated carve-out.

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Story date14 July 202510 October 2025

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