Section 9 of The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025: Penalty for contravention.
The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025
About this Act
An Act to promote and regulate the online gaming sector including e-sports, educational games and social gaming; to provide for the appointment of an Authority for coordinated policy support, strategic development and regulatory oversight of the sector; to prohibit the offering, operation, facilitation, advertisement, promotion and participation in online money games through any computer resource, mobile device or the internet, particularly where such activities operate across State borders or from foreign jurisdictions; to protect individuals, especially youth and vulnerable populations, from the adverse social, economic, psychological and privacy-related impacts of such games; to ensure the responsible use of digital technologies; to maintain public order and protect public health; to safeguard the integrity of financial systems and the security and sovereignty of the State; to establish a uniform national level legal framework in the public interest; and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(2) Any person who makes or causes to make advertisement in any media, in contravention of section 6, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to fifty lakh rupees or with both.
(3) Any person who engages in any transaction or authorisation of funds in contravention of section 7 shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine which may extend to one crore rupees or with both.
(4) If any person convicted of an offence under sub-section (1) or sub-section (3) is again convicted of an offence under the same provision, he shall be punished with imprisonment for the second and for every subsequent offence for a term which shall not be less than three years, but may extend to five years and shall also be liable to fine which shall not be less than one crore rupees, but may extend to two crore rupees.
(5) If any person convicted of an offence under sub-section (2) is again convicted of an offence under the same provision, he shall be punished with imprisonment for the second and for every subsequent offence for a term which shall not be less than two years, but may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine which shall not be less than fifty lakh rupees, but may extend to one crore rupees.