Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday said the state government will ban online rummy and bring in legal changes to arrest its organisers and players.
The state government has decided to ban all online games involving betting, he told reporters in Coimbatore where he arrived to review Covid-19 management work and inaugurate infrastructure projects in the Nilgiris and Tirupur districts. The decision comes amid series of suicides across the state by victims who fall into debt due to online gambling.
About a dozen died by suicide due to debt from online gambling. In Coimbatore, two men, aged 28 and 32, committed suicide within two days this week, while across the state about a dozen have killed themselves so far.
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