{"id":11932,"date":"2021-09-28T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=11932"},"modified":"2021-09-28T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T17:56:34","slug":"online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Gambling Ban In Karnataka Could Impact 500 Start Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/karnataka.jpg\" alt=\"Karnataka\" title=\"Online Gambling Ban In Karnataka Could Impact 500 Start Ups\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11933\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/madhya-pradesh-government-wants-time-to-decide-fate-of-online-gambling\/\">Multiple states in India have proceeded to crackdown on online gambling operators<\/a> in the last 18 months. The COVID-19 lockdown in India resulted in a massive spike in online gambling across India which has caused serious concerns for anti-online gambling campaigners.<\/p>\n<p>The South Indian state of Karnataka decided to introduce a <a href=\"https:\/\/prsindia.org\/files\/bills_acts\/bills_states\/karnataka\/2021\/Bill%20No.%2037%20of%202021%20Karnataka.pdf\">Karnataka Police (Amendment) Bill, 2021<\/a> which looks to ban all forms of online gambling in the state. The state government was instructed by the Karnataka High Court instructed to either ban online gambling or regulated online gambling after hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filing.<\/p>\n<p>The PIL stated that residents in Karnataka were being taken advantage off by offshore gaming operators and as a result were accumulating huge gambling debts that caused numerous problems including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/gambling-related-suicides-may-force-indian-state-of-kerala-to-ban-igaming\/\">gambling related suicides<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>CNN-News18<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mos2AVi9_Ow?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Karnataka government decided that it was in the best interests to ban online gambling and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/in\/legal-indian-online-betting-sites\">sports betting<\/a>. The bill does not ban horse racing or the state lottery. The bill has since been approved by the State Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n<h2>CAIT Objects To New Bill<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cait.in\">Confederation of All India Traders<\/a> (CAIT) is the biggest organization that represents more than 40,000 trade associations across India and over 8 crore traders. CAIT sent in a letter to the chief minister of Karnataka <strong>Basavaraj Bommai<\/strong>. The letter asked the chief minister to make amendments to the new bill as it did not distinguish between games of luck and games of skill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Praveen Khandelwal<\/strong>, Secretary General for CAIT said that their organization fully supported the ban on games of chance as it did not want to encourage gambling. However, games of skill should not be clubbed together with games of chance which is what the new law does. <\/p>\n<p>The letter also pointed out that there were over 500 startup companies in the gambling and betting market that would no longer be able to survive with the new bill. Khandelwal urged the government to come out with new laws and gambling regulation that will allow games of skill to be regulated.<\/p>\n<p>Khandelwal said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/indian-gaming-sites-set-to-profit-once-again-from-may-2021-lockdown\/\">Indian gaming market was flourishing<\/a> and these 500 companies had enormous potential to grow. The new law would not only wipe them out but also discourage other startups from venturing into the online gambling industry. The Karnataka government is yet to provide a response to the letter from CAIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple states in India have proceeded to crackdown on online gambling operators in the last 18 months. The COVID-19 lockdown in India resulted in a massive spike in online gambling across India which has caused serious concerns for anti-online gambling campaigners. The South Indian state of Karnataka decided to introduce a Karnataka Police (Amendment) Bill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casino","category-legislation","category-poker","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Online Gambling Ban In Karnataka Could Impact 500 Start Ups<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The South Indian state of Karnataka have decided to introduce bill which looks to ban all forms of online gambling in the state.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Online Gambling Ban In Karnataka Could Impact 500 Start Ups\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The South Indian state of Karnataka have decided to introduce bill which looks to ban all forms of online gambling in the state.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-28T15:04:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-28T17:56:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/karnataka.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ella McDonald\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ella McDonald\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ella McDonald\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1847ac7fb6ef98e52b80c47d530441b2\"},\"headline\":\"Online Gambling Ban In Karnataka Could Impact 500 Start Ups\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-28T15:04:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-28T17:56:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":393,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/karnataka.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Casino\",\"Legislation\",\"Poker\",\"Sports\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\\\/\",\"name\":\"Online Gambling Ban In Karnataka Could Impact 500 Start Ups\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/karnataka.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-28T15:04:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-28T17:56:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1847ac7fb6ef98e52b80c47d530441b2\"},\"description\":\"The South Indian state of Karnataka have decided to introduce bill which looks to ban all forms of online gambling in the state.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/karnataka.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/09\\\/karnataka.jpg\",\"width\":380,\"height\":250,\"caption\":\"Karnataka\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1847ac7fb6ef98e52b80c47d530441b2\",\"name\":\"Ella McDonald\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8ac56b981b072b072e8d6f617f427556a214f8f44f28443625afa736fbba7696?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8ac56b981b072b072e8d6f617f427556a214f8f44f28443625afa736fbba7696?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/8ac56b981b072b072e8d6f617f427556a214f8f44f28443625afa736fbba7696?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ella McDonald\"},\"description\":\"Worldwide gambling related news stories are what you will find being written by Ella, she has a keen interest however in UK and European based new stories relating to all gaming environments, and she is always prepared to ask the difficult questions many other journalists avoiding asking those in power.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.legitgambling.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/ella-mcdonald\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Online Gambling Ban In Karnataka Could Impact 500 Start Ups","description":"The South Indian state of Karnataka have decided to introduce bill which looks to ban all forms of online gambling in the state.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Online Gambling Ban In Karnataka Could Impact 500 Start Ups","og_description":"The South Indian state of Karnataka have decided to introduce bill which looks to ban all forms of online gambling in the state.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/","article_published_time":"2021-09-28T15:04:50+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-09-28T17:56:34+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/karnataka.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Ella McDonald","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ella McDonald","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/"},"author":{"name":"Ella McDonald","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1847ac7fb6ef98e52b80c47d530441b2"},"headline":"Online Gambling Ban In Karnataka Could Impact 500 Start Ups","datePublished":"2021-09-28T15:04:50+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-28T17:56:34+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/"},"wordCount":393,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/karnataka.jpg","articleSection":["Casino","Legislation","Poker","Sports"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/","name":"Online Gambling Ban In Karnataka Could Impact 500 Start Ups","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/karnataka.jpg","datePublished":"2021-09-28T15:04:50+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-28T17:56:34+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1847ac7fb6ef98e52b80c47d530441b2"},"description":"The South Indian state of Karnataka have decided to introduce bill which looks to ban all forms of online gambling in the state.","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/online-gambling-ban-in-karnataka-could-impact-500-start-ups\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/karnataka.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/karnataka.jpg","width":380,"height":250,"caption":"Karnataka"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/","name":"","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1847ac7fb6ef98e52b80c47d530441b2","name":"Ella McDonald","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8ac56b981b072b072e8d6f617f427556a214f8f44f28443625afa736fbba7696?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8ac56b981b072b072e8d6f617f427556a214f8f44f28443625afa736fbba7696?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8ac56b981b072b072e8d6f617f427556a214f8f44f28443625afa736fbba7696?s=96&d=monsterid&r=g","caption":"Ella McDonald"},"description":"Worldwide gambling related news stories are what you will find being written by Ella, she has a keen interest however in UK and European based new stories relating to all gaming environments, and she is always prepared to ask the difficult questions many other journalists avoiding asking those in power.","url":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/author\/ella-mcdonald\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}