Mum: 11-year-old moves HC seeking ban on 'PUBG'

Mumbai | Thursday | 31st January, 2019

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MUMBAI: An eleven-year-old boy moved the Bombay high court 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.Incidentally, even Prime Minister Narendra Modi had referred to the craze for this game during his interaction with students and parents about exam stress a few days back..