The UK is the largest online gambling market in the world. This $ 9.1 billion (Rs 73,910 crore) market is becoming Britain’s biggest problem due to liberal policy-regulators. Citing the reports of the House of Lords, the UK’s upper house, experts do not hesitate to say that online gambling has become a more dangerous epidemic than Corona.

Due to gambling, suicide, crime cases increased

Government figures show that about 400 people committed suicide due to this.

According to this report, in the last four years, people who are victims of online gambling addiction have lost about 1.5 lakh crore rupees in casino games, sports and online betting. The government itself admitted that 1.38 lakh people have become inveterate gamblers. Along with this, 36 thousand children in the age group of 11 to 16 years have also become addicted to it. Government figures show that about 400 people committed suicide after being troubled by it. People’s marriages are breaking down, bankruptcy is increasing, the number of homeless and crime is also increasing.

The ill effects of online gambling are now visible, it is not so. Six years ago Stewart Kenny, 64, quit as co-founder of an online gambling company called ‘Paddy Power’, considering it a dangerous disease. He had said- ‘I am very ashamed that online gambling games which became popular because of me are now forcing people to commit suicide. I am the first responsible for the collective failure in the growing addiction of gambling.

kids stealing money to play games

The child accepted that he used to try to steal outside even after being scolded at home.

Due to this addiction, children have suffered the most in Britain. In a recent survey, one in six children admitted that they have stolen their parents’ money to play games. Not only this, many even accepted that they used to try to steal outside even after being scolded at home.

Journalist George Cooper also became a victim of this addiction in the year 2019 during the Corona epidemic. He said that I had become a victim of stress due to the breakup. To overcome this, I resorted to online gambling. In the beginning, he used to invest small amounts in the first slot, but later for two and a half years he spent almost 1 crore rupees at stake by staying awake night and night. Now the condition is that I am completely bankrupt. The time has come to sell the house.

Ban in India, but demand for recognition of cricket betting

Seeing the situation in Britain, people in India are not in favor of giving legal status to betting.

Online gambling is illegal in India. However, there have been demands for recognition of betting in cricket. The Justice Lodha Committee in the Supreme Court had recommended to give statutory status to the increasing betting in cricket. However, seeing the situation in Britain, a large section in India is also not in favor of giving it legal status.