Congress MP, Shashi Tharoor, introduced a private member bill, The Sports (Online Gaming and Prevention of Fraud) Bill, 2018 in the Lok Sabha, with an aim to "establish an effective regime to maintain the integrity of sports in India by preventing and penalizing sports fraud, regulation of online sports gaming..." MediaNama has reached out to the office of Shashi Tharoor for a comment, we will update when we hear from them. The bill comes in the backdrop of a report by the Law Commission, which had called for regulation and legalisation of sports betting and gambling to bring more transparency in the betting market. The Commission had also recommended that sports betting and gambling should be cashless to deal with issues of tax evasion. In 2016, the Justice Lodha committee had also recommended the legalisation of betting in cricket. Note that Tharoor is associated with cricket, have written book on the sport (called Shadows Across the Playing Field) and is also associated with Kochi Tuskers, which played in the Indian Premier League. Before this private member bill, Nagaland had passed "The Nagaland Prohibition of Gambling and Promotion and Regulation of Online Games of Skill Act, 2015" in April 2016. The bill aims to regulate and legitimize online games of skill and allowed online gaming websites to apply for licenses to earn revenue. The Sports (Online Gaming and Prevention of Fraud) Bill, 2018 is divided into four chapters with two main parts: Chapter 2 deals with the prevention of sports fraud.…
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