The center has made it clear that compliance with the newly established promotion and regulation of the Online Gaming Act, 2025 will be strictly enforced, with measures that extend outside the borders of India.
The government said it would not hesitate to call on international processes, including Roping in Interpol, to bring offshore operators of money-gaming platforms under jurisdiction and to close their services.
“There is a process of Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization), and there is a process in which they can be brought,” said S. Krishnan, secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), at Businessline on the sidelines of an event.
Krishnan underlined that enforcement would also rely on the technical and cyber security infrastructure of India. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In), which functions under Meity, will be charged with blocking or disabling apps that continue to offer forbidden money gaming services in India. “Like any other technical problem, Cert-In can play his role to close those apps under the IT law,” he said.
The government also rejected the idea that the Omloop via Virtual Private Network (VPN) would not make the ban effective. “Without a VPN problem we will also find a way (to control them) … it’s a technology problem, so we have to,” Krishnan added.
The compliance-heavy approach follows what the center described as the repeated failure of self-regulation in the gaming industry. According to the government, the stakeholders in the industry themselves admitted that self -regulating authorities were insufficient and believed credibility. This led to the decision to set a legal ban on all real money games, while setting up room for e-sports and social gaming.
The law, which received presidential approval on Friday after he had been cleaned up by both parliamentary areas, prohibits all forms of money-based gaming, but at the same time promotes e-sports and online social games.
The government defended the move if necessary to curb the costs of social and public health. “Cases of suicides, deep family needs and financial ruin underline the size of social damage,” said Krishnan, and noted that although a few thousand jobs are linked to platforms with the gamal money of money, crores of individuals and households are adversely affected by addiction. “Society must consider whether the protection of a few thousand jobs outweighs the damage that has increased on millions of households,” he added.
By linking international cooperation to technical shutdowns, the government indicates that compliance with the new law will not be optional – even for offshore operators.
Published on August 23, 2025
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