New Delhi, Dec. 14 -- A complaint lodged in the Lok Sabha has brought Indian laws around vaping into focus. Vapes or e-cigarettes are banned in India, yet a Member of Parliament (MP) was allegedly using one openly in the premises. Is it illegal to use these smokeless devices? Not quite. Mint explains.

Last Thursday, during Zero Hour, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Anurag Thakur lodged a verbal complaint with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. He that an MP belonging to the Trinamool Congress was openly using e-cigarettes inside Parliament. He pointed out that e-cigarettes are banned throughout the country, and asked if they were allowed in Parliament. Thakur did not identify the MP by name, but a day later, a video TMC MP Saugata Roy surfaced,...