{"id":944631,"date":"2025-07-08T08:47:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944631"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:20:13","slug":"karnataka-proposes-bill-to-ban-online-betting-except-for-games-of-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/08\/karnataka-proposes-bill-to-ban-online-betting-except-for-games-of-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka proposes bill to ban online betting except for &#8216;games of skill&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: The state government is planning a total ban on all forms of online betting, wagering and gambling involving \u201cgames of chance,\u201d where defaulting individuals and entities can face imprisonment up to three years and be fined up to Rs 1 lakh, according to a new draft law proposed by the home department. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll forms of online betting, wagering, or gambling involving games of chance, including the use of money, tokens, virtual currency, or electronic funds, are prohibited,\u201d the draft Karnataka Police (Amendment) Bill, 2025, states. The bill is expected to be tabled in the upcoming session of the legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru: The state government is planning a total ban on all forms of online betting, wagering and gambling involving \u201cgames of chance,\u201d where defaulting individuals and entities can face imprisonment up to three years and be fined up to Rs 1 lakh, according to a new draft law proposed by the home department. \u201cAll forms of online betting, wagering, or gambling involving games of chance, including the use of money, tokens, virtual currency, or electronic funds, are prohibited,\u201d the draft Karnataka Police (Amendment) Bill, 2025, states. The bill is expected to be tabled in the upcoming session of the legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}