The Online Gaming Bill 2025 has just been passed in the Lok Sabha. This landmark legislation, titled the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025, aims to regulate the online gaming sector in India by imposing a complete ban on real-money gaming, betting, and gambling, including fantasy sports, poker, rummy, and online lotteries.
The new Online Gaming Bill is creating uncertainty for India’s fast-growing fantasy Gaming sector. The Bill is focused on online money games and gaming services. This new bill raises questions about whether fantasy Gaming will face ban alongside chance-based games. Online Gaming Bill 2025 could disrupt the fantasy market leading the layoffs and slow down investment.
Online Gaming Bill 2025 Bans Online Money Games
Check out the important points mentioned in the Bill below.
Prohibition of online money game and online money gaming service – No person shall offer, aid, abet, induce or otherwise indulge or engage in the offering of online money game and online money gaming service.
Prohibition of advertisement related to online money game – No person shall make, cause to be made, aid, abet, induce, or otherwise be involved in the making or causing to be made any advertisement, in any media including electronic means of communication, which directly or indirectly promotes or induces any person to play any online money game or indulge in any activity promoting online money gaming.
Prohibition of transfer of fund – No bank, financial institution, or any other person facilitating financial transactions or authorisation of funds shall engage in, permit, aid, abet, induce or otherwise facilitate any transaction or authorisation of funds towards payment for any online money gaming service.
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Fantasy Gaming community awaits Clearer guidelines
Severe penalties and potential prohibitions on Online Money Games—could threaten lawful fantasy gaming businesses and drive users to unregulated platforms. While the government reviews the Online Gaming Bill 2025, the fantasy gaming community awaits clearer guidelines that differentiate games of skill from gambling and support the sector’s sustainable growth within legal bounds.
