Is Betting legal In India?

Asneer grover threatened to boycott the Indian matches if they didn't remove 28% of GST. Madras high court stated that this app was becoming popular due to two Indian former cricket captains Saurav Ganguli & Virat Kohli and taking people's money. Heroes & Heroines were called from India & everyone was paid money in cash.

In between their office work, by putting their living on stake they were engrossed in making teams that play with the mind. So, that when they go in the court then make the game of skill. Pakistani leaders & through Pakistan, they reach a sheikh & they catch him.

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Army men who're mentally very strong, even they're entangled in it. There're many state governments, who're running lotteries themselves. Chhatisgarh's CM - Bhupesh Bahgel - took more than 500 crore rupees from Mahadev app.

You might've even heard that Police came & arrested the gamblers. You might know about people who bet in Cricket that police comes, arrests them & puts them in Jail. Similarly, in any other discussion you might've heard that lottery is illegal.

On the other hand, it might've also happened that there're shops where the government itself is selling lottery. Now gambling & betting is illegal but you can easily bet in a Casino in Goa. You can put money in horse races and play betting on it.

If four people are playing cards then, police arrests them but instead of that, if they're playing ludo then will the police arrest him or not. Playing gambling online is illegal in India. On the other hand, some people easily make teams online & bet money.

If you see anything illegal, then on the other hand a similar concept would be legal. So, what are the real reasons behind it? What is its actual legal status of gambling according to law in India?

What is allowed & what isn't? You'll understand all the things in this one single video. The history of playing gambling in India is very old.

When it was the time of 4th century BC then, at that time people used to play games with dice. Chopper, pachisi - these were played and it was an important part of the society. Even at the time of Mahabharat, people used to play gambling but at that time gambling was looked upon negatively.

Where, the Pandavas had lost everything. After this, in 16th Century - Mughals came & even at their time other forms of gambling were created. Like, for Akbar was fond of gambling through Cock fighting.

Now, after Mughals, Britishers arrive in India. In year 1777, they introduced horse racing in India. They introduced cricket, so people started betting and gambling even on them & in this particular time, people did one more thing - they made gambling houses where people would gather and gamble.

There were so many cases occurring in gambling houses fights increased so much, robberies started to occur, it was getting out of control for Britishers and to deal with all this Britishers passed a law on 25th January, 1867 which as named The Public Gambling Act, 1867. And the act that was passed in this particular year this becomes the root cause of these things in future still, this act is followed in India. I'll tell you all the details.

Now, the law was passed mainly to ban gambling houses so that people won't play gambling in public places and gambling houses. In Section 13 of this Act, they banned the gambling done on animal fighting and at that particular time, there was no Internet so, these online games, fantasy games nothing was mentioned about them in this particular act. In Section 12 & 18 of this Act, it was mentioned that gambling is an illegal activity in India but if anyone plays any skill based game, then it can be played.

Its entirely legal. Means game of chance is illegal & game of skill is illegal but it wasn't defined in this act that what would be the game of skill and what would be game of chance & all the things that weren't defined puts everything in trouble when cases go in court. Now, this act was implemented in the entire British India but horse races, lotteriees were hosted parallely, they weren't restricted that much.

The main problem if this act to solve was that moeny shouldn't be gambled on animal fighting, gambling hiuses should be closed. Now, in year 1947 we get independent & after which, when the constitution was being prepared then the Public Gambling Act, 1867 was adopted as it it without any change but we did one thing, this act was categorized in state list of Seventh Schedule means if the state wants, it can follow as it is or if the state wants, it can change it and make a new law of its own. So, states like Bihar Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh, MP, Manipur & many other states followed as it is in their state.

On the other hand, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Kerala these states amended this law & then implemented in their state. Now, from here the real struggle starts day by day things got modern but the law, was old that's why even after the law, problem wasn't solved. And at that time, case by case - as the case was filed in court & on that basis the solution was found.

Let me tell you one more thing that there're online gambling apps which are made in such a way that its certain for you to get addicted & on top of that, the loss of money but there're apps whose addiction isn't that bad like you must've surely heard about Duolingo. This app is also addictive due to its interactive design but it only has benefits and your money isn't involved in it. Duolingo is a language learning platform that I've personally used and it also helped me a lot.

Learning language in Duolingo feels like a game & actually its a fun ap, if you forget to do your lesson anytime, then this app will remind you by giving funny reminders. You'll be able to learn so many things by 5 minute lessons. You can track your learning progress on Duolingo & their daily streaks & achievements will maintain your interest.

Many people might've made a resolution to go to gym in new year, so why not make a resolution to learn a language in Duolingo. Sticking to this resolution is easier than going to gym and fruitful as well. So, download the Duolingo app today itself & master any language so, coming back to the topic.

Then comes, year 1955 the gambling houses were banned but people had found the alternative after the gambling houses were gone, gambling started by games competition and it was shown in such a way that, there's a game or puzzle competition & the winner will get a prize but underneath they were running gambling houses & the cases in India increased where people's money were being wasted. So to deal with it, government introduced Prize Competition act, 1955 & controlled it. Now, after some time what happens is that there was a man named - R.

M. D. Chamarbaugwala, he made a club and organized card related competitions in which people used to bet money.

So, some people complained that this isn't a competition but gambling is played regarding all this, R. M. D.

Chamarbaugwala filed a case that this competition isn't illegal but entire legal under Public Gambling Act, 1867 because this is a game of skill. And, game of skill in India is legal and after multiple discussions in court it was proved that Chamarbaugwala was hosting game of skill and not game of chance. Now this case, is termed important in the history of India because the law of India didn't define the game of skill & game of chance, only the name was written.

The judgement given by Supreme court of India, gave clarity to people what game of skill is - be it any sport somewhere or the other, it has luck or chance but the court says that - the dominating factor in it should be skill and not luck, if skill is dominating that game then its a game of skill and not gambling but if luck is only dominating the game alone then its game of chance. In game of skill consists of mental ability, physical ability, strategy by practicing one can improve their skill like Chess. Whereas, in the game of chance, the major factor is luck, random factor, on which nobody has any control.

How hard you try, you won't be able to do anything all the things depend on luck like slot machine. So, the act in which game of skill & game of chance was mentioned after this case, a clarity was there, if any case goes in the court regarding gambling or betting money on sports then case by case it was checked if it was a game of skill or game of chance. Suppose, I started a game, in which by betting money lakhs of people play and anyone complained when the case will go in court, then it will check that the game that I'm hosting is a game of skill or game of chance.

And the decision would be followed. Like, there were many cases related to playing deck cards then the court makes guidelines related to it. Then, all the departments follow that guidelines.

Police takes action on that basis. Now suppose, there's such a game which doesn't have guidelines nobody filed a case in court then it continues in the society. Now, the guidelines are that gambling in public place is illegal, so people who play cards in public are arrested by police but this year there was such a case that they arrested in case of Ludo as well.

A man in Ahmedabad, at Manav Mandir bus stand was gambling by betting Rs 8000 on Ludo. So, the police even arrested him. You might've seen that many people during summers out of the house or on the road play Ludo or cards and bet money on them for fun.

So, technically that is also illegal because ultimately betting money and playing in public is Gambling. So, slowly rules were made in India on the basis of the cases that were lodged in court. Now, comes the year 1968 and a man named K.

Satyanarayana was running a rummy club and police raids there that gambling was being played here, though K. Satyanarayana was trying to explain the police that its a game of skill. The police doesn't agree & this entire case goes into court that is Rummy a game of chance or game of skill.

In this court said that, to play rummy you need to remember cards, one has to decide when to throe which card its not just a game of chance, it also requires skill. And K. Satyanarayana wins this case and from year 1968, Rummy game becomes legal in India.

Now, some people would say that Rummy game isn't legal all over India, there're some states where its not legal, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Telangana. These are states where paying rummy game is banned because these states have changed rules & made separate ones. Whenever a game is mentioned in India, then first you need to see which state is that game played in, so until year 1968 this goes on, after few years talks start regarding Casino as well that is it legal or illegal.

So, Daman and Diu Public Gambling Act, 1976 is introduced which isn't for all over India but only implemented on Goa, Sikkim and Daman. After this Act, Goa, Sikkim and Daman allowed casinos and slot machines that is why in today's date, you can go in these states you can use casino and slot machines and gamble but not in other places. While this act was implemented in these states, it was said that they have more international tourism, many tourists visit that is why it was implemented.

But one cannot start any random way, you need to take a proper license. So, total of 200 slot machines were allowed in Goa and that too in 5 star hotels and on one license you can get 20 slot machines this was decided and in future, it was increased to 400. Now after that, horse racing was also going on in India.

People started talking about that as well, so there was a company named - The Madras Race club from 1896 they used to help people bet in Madras and OOTY on horse racing and when people talked about imposing restriction on it as well, that this is illegal. This is gambling, so a man named K. R.

Lakshmanan in 1996 filed a case that horse racing is a game of skill, it isn't a game of chance or gambling. So, since it wasn't defined anything in law then it was trend that if the game needs to be valid, then you need to prove it as a game of skill. And as soon as, it'll be proved as a game of skill then it can be played then it comes out of the category of gambling so, case of horse racing was also discussed about.

The man comes and bets money on race courts doesn't bets on chance, he's looking at the performance history of the horse, what is the condition of track, skills of jockey - he bets after looking at many things, so its a game of skill. So, horse racing was also put in the category of game of skill and K. R.

Lakhsmanan wins this case & from then on, year 1996 betting in horse racing was legal in India. So, you can think that, if horses are running on a track then betting on it is a game of skill and on the same track if cricket match is being played & if money is bet there then its gambling, police will arrest you. Now, after this lottery was hosted side by side in India So, as 1998 comes there were many cases on it.

There were many private players started doing fraud in it and ran away with people's money & lot of cases were being filed. Huge loss was being done, so central government brought an Act only for lottery Its name was the lotteries Regulation Act, 1998 - after it was introduced fair guidelines and transparency system with all the private and illegal ways of running lotteries were banned in India but even after this, the states made rules according to their own, so the system of lottery if we leave out 13 states, then in the entire India playing lottery is banned and among these 13 states there're many state governments which runs lottery themselves and even give money. And you cannot play lottery anywhere out of these 13 states.

So, Rummy, horse racing, lottery - you know their status, now comes fantasy and online gaming in the beginning of year 2000 the culture of online gaming was increasing rapidly, game of skill and game of chance already had a dispute in India, but after online gaming people who were betting money there wasn't any rule for it. So, more problems started and it all starts in 2001 when ESPN & Start Sports together bring a fantasy app, named - Super Selector but as 2003 arrives, they go into loss as its launch time wasn't that good. People weren't that much active on Internet, people didn't have mobiles so this app closes down but 4 years later, in 2007 after studying from USA Harsh Jain comes back to India where he had seen the craze of fantasy games within people so, he also wanted to introduce fantasy apps in India.

At that time, not many people new India fantasy apps but the fantasy apps he brought in India its timing was very good, after a year - in 2008, IPL starts and people comes on Internet very rapidly, people had mobile phones in hand and at the same time in 2008, he launches his fantasy apps. First they keep it as a subscription model but it doesn't give nay benefit, so in 2012 from the subscription model they convert it into premium model, they let people use it for free and some events has cash prizes. So, for that they took money & from there this fantasy app has its destiny flipped on but But along that, many fantasy apps came in India.

And at this time, some apps were doing anything. There was no regulation, they would do anything they want. So, first I'll tell about what a fantasy app is.

See, fantasy app is a type of online prediction games. Which you can connect with real life game. Taking IPL's example, the teams are there according to them.

So you can make a team in it and when the live match is going on, you can play in it. The real life players, the sports person, that are in the actual sports. They are linked to your fantasy app players.

The type of performance the player has on the real life game, the same performance would be the fantasy app players. You will feel like, your own players are bowling and batting. But in reality, this is just a fantasy.

There are real life matches in it. Make your own team and as live players gather runs, your points will increase, if you've picked that player. The one with the most point wins.

There are different rooms in this, and their fees. You can enter into that room by paying the fees. So you've understood what a fantasy app is.

But what's the money making model of fantasy apps. What do they do, that they become unicorn? So I'll explain an example.

Assume there are five players, all of them gave 100 rupees. Total 500 rupees are gathered. In this, first 28% GST will be levied on it, which will be taken by the government.

Now the left 360 rupees, the fantasy app's owners takes their cut. It is generally between 15%, 25% or 30%. Let's assume the cut is 20%.

Then if you remove 20% from it, the left will be 288 rupees. Now accordingly, the whole amount should be given to the player who won. But when he gets it, he has to give 30% TDS.

Because as per section 115BBJ, there's a 30% tax on net winnings. So after giving 30% TDS, the left are 201. 6 rupees.

Now the player, who won also payed 100 rupees, so if you remove it, then the winner's profit is 101. 6 rupees. So in this 500 rupees game, the player gets 101.

6 rupees. The fantasy app got 72 rupees. And the government, combining GST and TDS, they get 226.

4 rupees. The biggest profit is of the government. And this is not a small amount.

This goes in thousands of crores. According to Hindustan Times' report, on every international match of Indian cricket team, around 1500 crores rupees are given to these apps by people. .

On just one match. And combining domestic and international tournament matches, then its number bigger than 10 lakh crores. Talking about the 2022 revenue of fantasy apps, then its 6800 crores.

And this revenue will be 25,240 crore in 2027. There are multiple rooms in any one match, multiple games, even mutiple events. But if talking about one mega event, in which the winner becomes mega winner.

Roughly 1. 5 crore people participate in this. In which, entry fees is 49 rupees.

That is, 73. 5 crore rupees are gathered. In which, the government takes 33.

28 crore, 10. 58 crore goes to fantasy apps. And this is the amount of a small activity for a single match.

There are countless rooms like this. In one match, there are around 74 matches. 48 matches in world cup.

And talking about yearly, there are so many leagues, not just IPL or India, EPL, then hockey, football, there are matches in many places. And thousands of crores goes to government, state government and fantasy app. This fantasy app make celebrities and cricketers do ads.

So even they get money. They get different rights from BCCI, so even BCCI receives thousands of crore. So to say, BCCI is earning from this, state government is earning money from this.

Central government is earning from this, cricketers, celebrities are earning money from this. And if everyone is earning, then where is the money coming from ? This money is from you.

Your parent's hard work or your own. But ultimately, your own pocket will be empty. That's why you are explained 24/7 on TV, that I will do this, just make a team and leave everything else.

Ed tech companies, like Byju's and all are in loss. But these fantasy apps are becoming unicorn, earning thousands of crores, by making you dream of becoming a millionaire. And even if someone wins once or twice, then thousands of people think they can do that too because of them.

Mathematically, there's very less probability of someone winning on these apps. Even if I talk about the mega event, then there's a 0. 00000667% probability of you winning.

And someone's extra clever in this, because team is made for 49 rupees. So what they do is, buy two three teams, to increase their chances. But there's more loss to the ones who do that.

See, if you gather your friends, or school, college, village make 1 lakh team, even then your winning chances, mathematically are close to 0. Even if you gather more than 7 crore people, even then you won't win. Why am I saying this, I will explain.

Combining two teams in fantasy apps, you have to make a team of 11 people. That is, to choose 11 players from 22 players. If you calculate all the combinations, then the combinations are 705432.

And it doesn't end here, you have to choose captain and vice captain from this. Now, you made a team of 11 players, then there are 110 combinations of making only captain and vice captain. And if you multiply this 110 combination of captain and vice captain with 705432 then there will be 77597520 combinations.

You will have to make 7 crore teams, and even that won't be enough, because there's still a few factors less, if you replace captain and vice captain. See, even if you don't understand the calculation, just understand, which is the most important, you have more chances of becoming a Prime Minister of a small country, than becoming a millionaire from these apps. The app's owner, its not like if he plays he will win, in fact, even if Virat and Dhoni make teams themselves, there's no surety even then that they will win.

Because nobody knows how a player will play on the day of the match. There's things about making bots and winning, doing software changes. See, even if you make bots, ultimately the money will reach to the bank account of a real person, there will be tax, there would be noise about the winner, then they will be caught with a small investigation.

See, these apps are fair but the probability behind winning them is kept a secret. Ironically, it is told that if you put money into this then you will be a millionaire someday. And even if you hear sometime that someone won a couple thousand rupees.

Or some friend won some money, then ask them for how long they've been playing it and how much money they've given. You might win a game or two in this but the real game is won by the masters at the top by making you play. Just by putting 10, 20, 40 rupees, people are losing thousands.

Because its a small amount, the money doesn't go at once, that's why people don't understand. People are putting their livelihood on stake by leaving office in the middle and making a team. People start to make team by the start of the day.

And once the team is made, they watch, even the most boring, match till the end. Some people lie to themselves that we are not addicted, we are putitng money to just pass time. But due to this time pass, even if you give 10 rupees, then they will watch the whole match.

In today's date, employed people don't have time to even watch T20. Whereas these people are watching test matches due to giving 10 rupees. Because when they watch match by giving money and their selected player makes run, then there's a different type of adrenaline rush.

Excitement comes in a boring life. And then this thing converts into an addiction. This addiction is like that, the army men who are mentally so strong, even they are caught up in this.

You can go a small Google search, you will know how an army person's 20 lakh rupees have been gone. That's why when the addiction rises to a threshold, there's a need for treatment as well. In these fantasy apps, the winner thinks they are clever and puts money again and the loser puts money to gain back what he lost.

Plays again and again. This is a vicious cycle that never ends. Due to the lower price barrier, you get entry into the game by giving 10, 20 rupees.

That's why there are a lot of users on this. There are several cases in this, where kids younger than 18 used their parents Adhaar card to play. There's no procedure to confirm or stop this.

And there's also a referral system in this. Even if one kid in a group gets addicted to it, then they will try to give this referral and get other kids addicted to it. And the rest of the effort is completed by celebrities and cricketers.

See, an unknown man makes an app and asks money, people won't do it. But if the same man starts to run ads with celebrities which people pray, team captain, vice captain. Promote it using ads, then everyone would start joining it.

People consider them god, they have crores of fan, their promotion plays a very important role to quickly grow users in the app. There are 18 crore active users of these fantasy apps, that is, in any situation, these 18 crore will watch the match. And in 2027, these users will be 50 crores.

That's why it is suited by BCCI, IPL, their team owners and all the giants. They never want these fantasy apps to stop. These fantasy apps have so power that they give threats themselves.

Ashneer Grover threatened that if they don't remove the 28% GST, then we will boycott the Indian matches. "If you don't need us, then we don't need you. Even we will boycott the world cup then.

Even we will boycott the Indian matches. " From this one statement, you can understand how much profit they provide to BCCI, IPL owners that they can threaten them. And nothing happens.

Even government is keeping eyes shut. Because this fantasy ecosystem's whole economy plays a huge role. They make a very big contribution in GDP.

They talk about making this fantasy ecosystem app to a trillion economy. There's foreign direct investment in the country due to them. America's Tiger Global, UK's Steadview management, they are investing thousands of crore in these fantasy apps.

And all of the money is coming in India. Even if government takes a step, then current investor will back out, along that the coming investors will stop. So there will be heavy loss due to this, that's why state and central government silent watches the show.

If we tweaked even a little of these fantasy app's revenue, their operations, then BCCI's revenue, state government's revenue, IPL's revenue, central government's revenue. The revenue of celebrities and cricketers, revenue of big businessmen, it would deeply impact all of them. That's the reason, even if regulation comes, but experts say that fantasy apps will never stop in India.

Even if the whole world goes against it. That's the reason, the old laws and acts are kept as it is, there have been no changes in them. And changes is a long talk, Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, forget bill, there hasn't even been any talks about it.

Sourav Ganguly who has been former president of BCCI, which was given the responsibility of bringing reform in cricket administration by the Supreme court. They are telling everyone to make teams in ********. Ironically become the brand ambassador.

There was a PIL filed in Madras High Court, in which apps like *******, the celebrities that endorse them like Sourav Ganguly, Virat Kohli, Tamannah Bhatia, an objection was raised on them. Madras High Court said, this app is getting popular due to the two former captains of India, Sourav Ganguly and Virat Kohli. And taking people's money.

Justice N. Kirubakaran and Justice B. Pogalendi, they said these celebrities promoting these apps, there should be an objection raised on them.

Even they should be considered in this. Justice Kirubakran said, Sourav Ganguly is a star, he is visible in ads and people become victims. If a cricket star, or celebrity promotes these apps, then what does it mean for a normal person?

They follow them. See these fantasy apps, one problem is about the addiction and loss of money. This is also a kind of disease.

And I will tell why I'm saying this. See the American Psychiatric Association, they publish DSM-5. Its full form is, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder.

Like that, WHO also publishes ICD-11. ICD means International Classification of Diseases. They publish a comprehensive list and criteria about diseases related to brain.

What's the disease, what should be done for that. And the doctors worldwide, read this and update their methods of treatment. These are very important tools for professionals all over the world.

So in this DSM-5 edition and ICD's 11 edition, these online and offline gaming addictions are compared to the diease related to substance. That is compared with alcohol and drugs. And made a category of their own.

There are treatments for pathological and disordered gambling. And medicines are also made for this. According to the report of Translational Psychiatry report, people who gamble too much, their part of the brain, which controls impulses, gets weak.

That is, they lose control over themselves. Its easier to fool someone who gambles. What you see in red is the area which gets weak.

While gambling, thing happen like that in the brain. Those who are addicted to gambling, their brain's functioning also changes. And it affects your other works.

"It changes your brain. Addiction is a brain that has changed, to become entrained to the desires of the gambling" These online gambling, some might call it game of chance, or game of skill, the disease happening due to it is real. People are losing lives, and they are losing their homes.

In just Tamil Nadu state, in the last three years, 40 people have lost their lives. A psychiatrist of Tamil Nadu, Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar, while giving an interview to quint, they said they meet one patient every day in their clinic who is suffering from the addiction of online fantasy platform. And their treatment is going on.

On 10th of March, 2017, a man named Varun Gumber, transferred 50,000 rupees from this credit card and made a team on the fantasy app. In just 2 days he lost all his money. He files a case in Punjab and Haryana court, that these fantasy apps are gambling, its not a game of skill, it should be banned.

The case goes on for days. See, we discussed earlier, if the case goes in court, first it is checked whether it is a game of skill or game of chance. And even here, after multiple discussion, court says you select players based on their skills these fantasy apps.

You've seen the player's performance earlier as well. You can compare player to another player. Which pitch condition will suit which player, and which not.

You make a team by using your brain. So these fantasy apps are a game of skill. And Varun Gumber loses this case.

And from year 2017, fantasy apps get a legal framework that this is a legal game. See court takes decisions based on the law. Not emotions or what it personally thinks.

And when the law was made, these online games were not there. Law is the same old one. So even the court is not able to do much.

You can ask anyone, whether KBC is a game of skill or chance. Everyone will say, it is a game of skill. There will be no doubt about it.

But if KBC starts to gather crores of rupees from people, then takes their cut from it. And then for one question, 1 crore people tap the buzzer for the question. Press it and see which one gave the answer first.

The winner would be selected on the basis of that. So will KBC be a game of skill? Okay, if you assume these fantasy apps are a game of skill.

Then comparing a normal person, the cricketer who knows this game, why are they earning money by doing commentary after retiring. They can make team as IPL starts on the basis of skill, earn 300-400 crores and easily win. The reality is that even if you say to Kapil Dev, Sunil Gawaskar to make teams in these fantasy apps.

There would be no sureity that they would win. Even they would lose, because the chances are so low. Then how is this a game of skill.

If this was a game of skill, then there would be news of a cricketer winning every year. They would be a millionaire. Those playing in Ranji, they know the conditions of the pitch, they would be millionaire.

But instead, a random person's name comes out that won. Who doesn't have any knowledge as apposed to a cricketer. And this happens because in this whole fantasy app, skill is not the dominating factor.

You might've heard, Sitamani who didn't even used to watch cricket, put money because of his friends and made a team. He won more than a crore rupees. Now he doesn't have more knowledge than a cricketer, but even then he won.

But the whole focus of these fantasy apps is to prove that our app is a game of skill. That's why you must've heard the line in their advertisement, "Play using brain". So that when they go to court, it will be a game of skill.

There are some states, who've had a very negative effect because of it. Many homes were destroyed. Many lost their lives.

And this was increasing so quickly, that those states, in October 2022, states like Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, Nagaland, and Sikkim are there. They suddenly banned these apps, without even thinking twice, on October 2022. And some states had to geo layer.

That is, if you go in those state's boundary, then that app will stop working. But people were so addicted that they would cross the border, make a team and then come back. Kids have started proper black marketing.

In 2021, government employee named Keshav Ramesh, he saw some kids around his home playing Ludo. And when he checked, they were playing Ludo by giving money. And after seeing all this, he immediately complained in Girgaon police station.

After that he went to court, and fought a case. But it was the same, game of skill or chance. The discussion starts, and all the same things here.

The token cannot be forwarded without thinking. Which token to play when, this is also a skill. So Ludo was also considered a game of skill.

And even that became legal. Okay, these online apps have become legal but even after that the government doesn't regulate them. They are self regulated.

See, the government doesn't regulate every department, they put them in self regulation. They are self regulated. Like, TV, in case of that the broadcaster made an association called BARC.

They regulate their organisation themselves. Similarly, news media have made NBA. They self regulate themselves.

So in the case of these fantasy apps, government doesn't do any regulation. Fantasy app's themselves have made FIFS. They see themselves whether they are doing regulation properly or not.

That is, they are the ones protecting the milk. See, these fantasy apps are at least in limelight. Under government, they do regulation.

But some apps have also come in the market, that do proper illegal activity with the cover of fantasy apps. There's no one to oversee them. And these apps have caused so many kids and homes in problems.

You must've heard regularly that government banned so much apps that were taking people's money and deleted data. There was an app called Mahadev, it was the same with it. Actually, Bhilai in Chattisgarh, guy names Sourabh Chandrakar, who used to run a juice shop with the name Mahadev.

And at some distance there was a tyre shop where his friend, Ravi Uppal, run that shop. They used to gamble along with their work, gamble money. And due to that addication, they were in too much loan.

So the ones from whom they took money, were after them. So they went to Dubai, leaving India. There, they were doing small works and they meet a pakistani there.

Through a pakistani they reach a sheikh. And they give the sheikh idea of a gambling app called Mahadev. Sheikh puts money and they made an app called Mahadev book.

They made this app in Dubai but they put its operation in India. With this app, they gave franchise in India and used to run this app by indians. People would gamble money on cricket, cards, poker in their app, proper gambling.

In just a few days, this app quickly grew. They started to earn more than 200 crore in just a day. But the people were losing a lot of their money.

Their lives started to get destroyed. So when people lose, they complain to the police, file case in court and it happened just like that. When the cases become too much, ED tracked them and at that particular time, the owner of this app, Sourabh, he was getting married at the time.

He had a marriage of more than 200 crores. And even at the wedding they ordered private jet, called hero, heroine from India. And everyone was paid in cash.

From this, ED's investigation sped up. ED had a lot of operations, even politics was involved in this. According to ED, some people of Chattisgarh were also involved.

And there are allegations that Chattisgarh's CM, Bhupesh Bhagel, he took amount more than 500 crore from Mahadev app. And he did this work through his advisor Vinod Verma. So these allegations were placed.

And Bhupesh Bhagel obviously denied it. He said its politics at play, in fact he was one of the people who talked of getting Mahadev app banned. And he also said that he himself got it banned.

There's still case going on about this. So definitely keep away from these type of apps. And in May 2022, the government has come to action.

A committee has been issued. Which is studying it, and regulation will be there in the coming times. But only regulation, if you think that fantasy app will be banned, its very impossible.

So for now, these apps act like a proxy to gambling. Lastly I would tell you again to download Duolingo app and master any language. I've put the link in the description.

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