India, April 2 -- The Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has blocked 357 links to illegal and non-compliant offshore online money gaming platforms under the Information Technology (IT) Act, minister of state for electronics and information technology Jitin Prasada told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

"So far, 357 websites/URLs of illegal/non-compliant offshore online money gaming platforms have been blocked by the DGGI, in coordination with MeitY, under the IT Act," the minister said, responding to an unstarred question by Chavan Ravindra Vasantrao, Sudheer Gupta and Dhairyasheel Sambhajirao Mane.

The finance ministry on January 6 empowered the additional/ joint director (intelligence) of DGGI headquarters to directly send taked...