# ‘The family paid the price’: India’s deadly online gambling crisis

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- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-12 04:46 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/9/12/the-family-paid-the-price-indias-deadly-online-gambling-crisis?traffic_source=rss

> India’s rapidly expanding online gambling industry is adapting to evade a government ban, while debts and deaths mount. In Telangana’s Nizamabad district, a 22-year-old man accumulated heavy betting losses and loans before he and his parents died by suicide, highlighting the country’s growing online gambling addiction crisis.