Rajkot: 12 held in five days for playing PUBG

Ahmedabad | Thursday | 14th March, 2019

Summary:

The Rajkot police has arrested 12 persons from different parts of the city for violating a notification on banning the popular video game PUBG (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds). The 12 youth were aged between 19 and 25 years, and were arrested from Junagadh, Nana Mava Road, Vaswani Road, Atmiya College Road and Jagannath Chowk areas. Anybody caught playing the game would be liable to action under sections 144 and 37(3). We even got calls from some people tipping us off about these youngsters playing the game," said Manoj Agrawal, police commissioner of Rajkot. The game was banned after it was blamed for increasing violence among children addicted to it..