Delhi Online Lottery

People often prefer purchasing an official ticket (or going for the ticket messenger service). In that case, the platform will send scanned copies of the paper lottery ticket(s) to your email or lottery account. If you buy the ticket(s) from a betting site, the platform will send a confirmation message to your email or the lottery account.

In the next section, you’ll find an in-depth explanation of buying lottery tickets offline.

What Happened to the Delhi Government Lottery?

You’d be surprised to know that Delhi had its lottery program earlier. In 1995, a ban was imposed on the Delhi Government Lottery. This was done after the Delhi Police caught a range of fake lottery rackets. Due to the minimum appeal for keeping the ban, the Delhi Government had to contemplate the partial upliftment of the ban in 1999.

However, single-digit lotteries had already been outlawed by the Supreme Court by then. But given the impact on the associated jobs, the Government of Delhi attempted to restore the double and triple-digit lotteries. This remained an attempt only and never came to execution. 

Ever since, the lottery in the capital has been outlawed. With the loopholes being discovered and the advent of the internet, today, playing lotteries online is no hassle and completely legal, provided you play at an offshore site.

Does the Delhi Government Approve Lottery?

Firstly, you should know that the Lottery Regulations Act legalizes the selling and buying of lottery in 13 Indian states, and Delhi isn’t one of them. The city union territory doesn’t have any lottery of its own. Thus, it’s safe to consider that the concept of the Delhi lottery is vague. 

The Central Government has not yet released any notification establishing a Lottery Department in the Capital. Consequently, you won’t find any paper lottery tickets being sold in public in Delhi. The only physical tickets you may find are from legit agents who are selling lottery tickets in other states where it’s legal.

India’s central government directly controls the Union Territory of Delhi, so it cannot have its own government lottery. The Delhi government won’t be able to take advantage of the Lotteries (Regulation) Act 1998 for all separate states. Neither can it devise its lottery-related laws.

Undoubtedly, the Central Government can intervene anytime to permit lotteries in Delhi. However, doing so would be an impractical decision by the government as several other Union Territories would otherwise demand the same. To refrain from setting up a wrong example, it’s most likely that the central Government won’t do anything about it.

Delhi’s partial statehood allows its people to enjoy lottery games. Lottery enthusiasts counter the above logic with the fact that Delhi – although a union territory – has its legislature. Delhi has a separate Government comprising a CM, MLAs, and an assembly.

So, there’s an absence of an Upper House in Delhi. It is the Lieutenant Governor who makes all the final decisions. Given all these, the Lotteries (Regulation) Act is both – applicable and not applicable – in Delhi. Taking advantage of this loophole, one can legally play the lottery on online offshore sites and through agents who sell tickets to other states.