Episode 5: Legality of gambling in India with Uday Walia - The SevenJackpots Podcast

In episode five of The SevenJackpots Podcast, we are joined by Uday Walia, Partner at Touchstone Partners, to speak about the legal landscape of India in regard to online gambling. India is a fairly complicated country when it comes to gambling. Not only is there a national law (The Public Gambling Act, 1867), but each state has the ability to create their unique laws on gambling. This has created quite the split among states, where some have regulated it (Goa, Sikkim, Nagaland etc.), while others have completely banned it (Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, etc.) While India has been set on leaving the question of gambling’s be or not to be to the states for quite some time now, there are winds blowing in a national regulatory direction as the country prepares to add gambling winnings to TDS and potentially to the GST as well. And who better to break down and explain all of this but Uday Walia! You can expect exclusive insight into the latest updates and cha