It's illegal to play a video game? What world is this?
Before you speak, let me establish two facts. Modi and the BJP are synonymous since 2014. When the BJP wins an election, it's called a "Modi wave". The flipside of taking credit for everything and micromanaging everything that the BJP does is that he is responsible when they fuck up... like they have here. Second, the police ultimately report to the Chief Minister who is answerable to Modi. Now say what you have to say, without resorting to the downvote button.
As for the sites ban, I couldn't find any Government order banning these sites. For all we know, it might be the courts issuing these bans.
Check out this list of books banned in India and tell me how many are from Modi Kaka's New India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_in_India
Basically it is blocked in some places and not blocked in some others:
https://www.medianama.com/2019/03/223-tell-me-it-aint-nothin...
Whoever came up with that law is simply an imbecile or dishonest about their motives.
On the other hand they have 150 policemen per hundred thousand citizens so what else is going to happen?
Meanwhile the Tech companies and Telcos and Media(social/news/games/porn) are mindlessly falling over themselves to hook as big a chunk of the masses as possible with their dark patterns. The parents of most kids with a phone in India, barely know how to read and write, leave alone understand/supervise what the kid is doing on the phone.
The size and scope of the mental health disaster unfolding boggles the mind.
Games are not keeping people poor. An extremely small population relative to total people playing may be addicted and it affects their lives but that should not be a reason to ban a game.
Also, the point it not made with this situation. It’s a single game. Not all games.
Please look to the US drug war to see why throwing people in jail for a problem they have is not the correct solution.