By Malik Yaseen
A man from our community recently lost ₹1.5 crore to an online betting game. That number may sound unreal, exaggerated even. But it isn’t.
What began for him as a harmless flutter, a few hundred rupees on a mobile app, slowly turned into a spiral of obsession, debt, and irreversible loss.
In the end, his savings vanished, his home was sold, and his family was left struggling to make sense of a life that had, quite suddenly, fallen apart.
He isn’t alone. And that is what makes this story so frightening.
Across Kashmir, a growing number of young people are being pulled into the high-speed world of online betting through games like Aviator, fantasy leagues,…