A growing online gambling crisis in India is devastating families across the country, with mounting debts linked to multiple suicides even as a new national law bans all money-based online gaming. In Telangana (a southern Indian state), a 22-year-old man and his parents died by suicide in October 2024 after he accumulated over $21,000 in gambling debts, while similar cases involving young men in Hyderabad have been reported in recent months. Despite a parliamentary ban on online money gaming passed in 2025, the illegal market continues to flourish — a report by public-policy organisation CUTS International estimated that the 15 largest unauthorised betting platforms received more than 5.4 billion visits from India in the 2024–25 financial year, with annual deposits on such platforms estimated at around $100bn.