Meet the Team Behind Best Casino India
Every review, guide, and ranking on this site is produced by a named, accountable human being — not an algorithm, not an intern with no gambling experience. Our team brings over 28 combined years of iGaming research, consumer journalism, and financial analysis specifically focused on the Indian market.
Arjun Mehta
Chief Editor
12+ years in iGaming and sports journalism. Final editorial authority over all reviews, scoring methodology, and responsible gambling policy. Based in Mumbai.
Priya Sharma
Senior Editor – Bonuses & Compliance
7+ years reviewing casino bonus terms and regulatory compliance. Specialist in wagering requirements, T&C analysis, and responsible gambling content. Based in Pune.
Vikram Nair
Casino Analyst – Games & Technology
5+ years auditing game libraries, RTP accuracy, software providers, and mobile platforms. Former QA lead in the fintech sector. Based in Bangalore.
Sneha Patel
Payments Specialist
4+ years testing Indian payment methods — UPI, Net Banking, Paytm, PhonePe — at online casinos. Fintech background with deep knowledge of INR transaction flows. Based in Ahmedabad.
Editorial Team Profiles
Read the full background, expertise areas, and review methodology of each team member.
Background
Arjun Mehta began his career as a sports journalist at a leading Hindi-language newspaper in Mumbai, covering cricket and kabaddi before moving into the online sports betting and casino space in 2013. He spent four years as a content strategist at a Malta-based iGaming operator — an experience that gave him a precise understanding of how casino products are designed, how bonuses are structured to favour the house, and what responsible operators actually look like from the inside.
He founded Best Casino India in 2020, identifying a gap in reliable, India-specific casino content as the market expanded rapidly following the growth of UPI and affordable smartphones. He has been quoted as a market commentator in Indian financial press on the topic of offshore gambling regulation and has testified as a subject-matter witness in a consumer rights forum concerning an Indian player's delayed withdrawal dispute.
Editorial Role
Arjun holds final authority over all published content on BOCI. He sets the review methodology, defines scoring criteria and their weights, signs off on every new casino recommendation, and personally writes or co-writes all high-visibility reviews. He also manages relationships with our responsible gambling partners and ensures our editorial policy is applied consistently across the team.
Background
Priya Sharma studied law at Symbiosis Law School, Pune, before transitioning into consumer finance journalism. Her legal background made her unusually well-suited to the casino bonus space, where the gap between a headline offer and the terms-and-conditions reality is often substantial. She joined BOCI in 2021 and has since built out our bonus analysis framework from scratch — a methodology that reads every relevant clause of a bonus's T&C document before a single score is assigned.
She is also the lead writer for our responsible gambling content and chairs our internal review process for deciding whether a casino's player protection tools are adequate for recommendation. She holds a certificate in problem gambling awareness from the International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviors at McGill University (online programme).
Editorial Role
Priya leads all bonus content on the site, including the Bonuses section, welcome bonus sections of individual reviews, and our comparative bonus tables. She also writes and maintains our responsible gambling content, verifies licence status and regulatory standing for all reviewed casinos, and peer-reviews draft reviews produced by other team members for factual accuracy.
Background
Vikram Nair spent six years as a quality assurance lead at a Bangalore-based fintech startup before bringing those analytical skills to casino product testing. He joined BOCI in 2022 and is responsible for every aspect of game library analysis: counting and categorising titles by provider and type, verifying published RTP figures against third-party audit reports, testing mobile performance on both Android and iOS, and benchmarking loading speeds and UI responsiveness across device types.
He maintains a research database of over 200 casino software providers and regularly consults published audit reports from eCOGRA, BMM Testlabs, and GLI (Gaming Laboratories International) when assessing the fairness credentials of a casino's game library. He is also our resident expert on provably fair blockchain casino mechanics — an increasingly relevant topic as crypto casinos gain traction with Indian players.
Editorial Role
Vikram writes the Games section content on our site, leads game library scoring in all reviews, and maintains our software provider comparison database. He also tests mobile functionality for every reviewed casino and writes our mobile app and browser performance sections. He is the contact point for technical queries from readers about game mechanics, RTP, and fairness verification.
Background
Sneha Patel worked as a product analyst at an Ahmedabad-based payments startup before joining BOCI in 2022. She brings a deep, technical understanding of Indian payment infrastructure — UPI rails, IMPS vs NEFT processing windows, the operational differences between payment aggregators commonly used by offshore casinos — that is rarely found in casino publishing.
Her testing methodology for payment processing is the most rigorous on the team: she maintains real funded accounts at every casino under review and conducts withdrawal tests at regular intervals, tracking minimum and maximum amounts, processing times from request to credited funds, fee structures, and the KYC documentation requirements that most first-time players encounter unexpectedly. She maintains a rolling database of deposit and withdrawal speed records, updated with each test cycle.
Editorial Role
Sneha writes all payment-related content on the site, including the Payment Methods section, payout scoring in individual reviews, and our UPI casino and Net Banking casino guides. She personally executes all real-money withdrawal tests and is the editorial authority for payout speed scores. She also handles reader complaints related to delayed withdrawals, investigating cases and escalating where appropriate.
Our Methodology Commitment
No member of the BOCI team accepts personal gifts, hospitality, or compensation from casino operators beyond standard affiliate commissions disclosed on each review page. All editorial opinions are those of the named author and do not represent the views of any affiliated casino. Reviews are updated independently of affiliate relationships — a casino can lose a recommendation at any time if our testing reveals changed circumstances, regardless of the commercial relationship in place.
For questions about our methodology or team, use our Contact page. For more detail on how reviews are scored, read our Editorial Policy.