The decision to ban online gambling was taken after the state witnessed a series of suicides of people who lost money after getting into online gambling.
Santhosh, who left for college on Thursday morning, skipped the classes out of frustration over his parents' reprimand. He did not, however, go home that night.
After becoming addicted to the online rummy, Nagarajan had been losing a lot of money in the game for the past few months, which put his family in financial distress.
After the outrage over the death of a Chennai woman who committed suicide after losing money in online rummy, the state government has come up with the measure to play the damage control.
The ordinance was promulgated by Governor Banwarilal Purohit on Friday after which Tamil Nadu has become the second south Indian state to ban online gambling after Andhra Pradesh.
In what has become a message of caution, the recent suicides and his statement had pushed us to scrutinize what comes to our hand and where the digital world drives us.
