Tamil Nadu Governor Returns Bill On Online Gaming
NDTV
The assembly had passed the bill in October, after around 20 people died by suicide following losses in online gambling. "Now 44 people have died in the state," said a government official.
Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi has returned a bill passed by the assembly meant to ban online gambling and regulate online games. A highly placed source in the law department has said the Governor "has raised a few queries. The Speaker's office has received it". But the move is seen by many as a continuation of the confrontationist stance the state's DMK government accuses him of.
The assembly had passed the bill in October, after around 20 people died by suicide following losses in online gambling. "Now 44 people have died in the state," said a government official.
Although a law was enacted by the previous AIADMK government, the court had scrapped it.
The DMK, after it came to power, framed the bill on basis of recommendations by a specially constituted committee under former judge Justice K Chandru.
