I am against banning anything like that, but I hope you also realize that some people would involuntarily waste years of their life and completely destroy themselves playing it. The addiction is real and harmful.
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.