11-year-old moves HC seeking ban on PUBG

Mumbai: An eleven-year-old boy moved the Bombay High Court on Thursday seeking a ban on popular mobile game ‘PUBG’. 

Ahad Nizam, who filed the public interest litigation through his mother, said the game promotes violence, aggression and cyber-bullying. 

The court should direct the Maharashtra government to ban it, the PIL said. 

“The petition has also sought a direction to the central government to form an Online Ethics Review Committee for periodical checking of such violence-oriented online content,” petitioner’s lawyer Tanveer Nizam said. 

It is likely to come up for hearing before a division bench headed by Chief Justice N H Patil. 

PUBG or ‘Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds’ is an online game where two or more online partners play on the backdrop of a battlefield.