Can Bitcoin Be Banned by the Indian Government? Posted by Pranesh Prakash <http://cis-india.org/author/pranesh> at Dec 24, 2013 10:09 PM | Permalink <http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/bitcoin-legal-regulation-india> In this paper, Vipul Kharbanda analyses the laws and regulations that apply to Bitcoin in India, and comes to the conclusion that the government has wide powers that it can exercise, if it wishes, to regulate Bitcoin. Given the lack of existing legal and regulatory analysis on this issue in India, we greatly welcome comments on this issue. Bitcoin: Legal Treatment under the Current Indian Legal and Regulatory Regime This paper is an effort to examine the legal basis and treatment of Bitcoin under the current legal and regulatory regime in India. It seeks to explore whether Indian laws and regulations as they stand today would even consider Bitcoin as 'currency' and which regulations would govern different kinds of Bitcoin transactions. In this paper we shall first give a brief description of Bitcoin and then move on to what its legal treatment would most likely be which would then lead us to examine which regulations would most likely apply to various Bitcoin transactions. [...] Continua qui: http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/bitcoin-legal-regulation-india