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Bob Moore wrote:

It's not allowed in my country, and was interested in knowing whether
India alone is archaic or do similar rules exist elsewhere too?

Don't want to start a sociopolitical war here, but if you've ever been a
reader of The Economist, you'll know their strongly held and often
stated view, namely that the *entire* Indian government and social
system has long been throttled in *way* too many bureaucratic rules and
impediments to economic and other activity -- and its population has
long suffered from this.