The Indian government is supposedly reviewing a plan to ban cryptocurrency and the finance ministry has introduced related inter-ministerial consultations. The move is apparently spurred by the Supreme Court suppressing the banking ban forced by the central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

India’s Plan to Ban Crypto Apparently Rekindled

The strategy to ban cryptocurrency in India is apparently backed on the table. The Economic Times (ET) described on Friday that India is looking to present a law to ban cryptocurrencies, as the government understands a legal framework as being more real than a circular from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in this respect.

The publication notes that A note has been moved (by the finance ministry) for inter-ministerial consultation, quoting a senior government official. The flow cabinet note was urged from the Indian supreme court’s presiding on March 4 which quashed the RBI’s circular delivered in April 2018 that banned financial institutions from provided that services to crypto businesses, counting exchanges, the news outlet labeled, adding:

The note will be sent to the cabinet after discussions and, consequently, to parliament.

This note may look like the bill to ban cryptocurrencies proposed by the interministerial committee (IMC) controlled by former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg.

The certificate entitled- Banning of Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill 2019 was stand up to to the finance ministry in February last year and available in July. It suggests jail sentences for violators. The bill was imagined to be presented in parliament in the winter sitting last year but it was not. The Indian crypto industry had expected that with the supreme court ruling, the government would reconsider the proposal to ban cryptocurrency.

What the Indian Government Will Prepare

The Indian cryptocurrency community is separated on the worth of this news. Nischal Shetty, CEO of local cryptocurrency exchange Wazirx who is overdue the #Indiawantscrypto social media movement, rapidly tweeted in reply to the report. He pointed out that the letter referenced by ET and the IMC report stand up to by the Garg committee is two diverse things, adding:

Policy 4.0 CEO Tanvi Ratna clarified: The review course is a long one. If there is an arrangement to push this, a parliamentary procedure will begin. This was the probable course after the Feb 2019 report was distributed, but it was delayed due to the Supreme Court case and other emergencies. She preached: the [Supreme Court] verdict left every crushed open for a judicial ban to cryptocurrencies. If the bill does pass assembly then the verdict would not embrace. It’s now time for the business to fully understand the procedure and involve constructively.

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