Latest News:-Last month, an eleven-year-old Ahad Nizam had shot off a strong-worded letter to seven ministers including Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, central Ministry of Electronics, Information & Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad, among others to prohibit PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile in India. Now, Nizam has taken the legal route to enforce a blanket ban on the battle royale game.
In the letter to the ministers, Nizam had actually informed that if he doesn't get any positive response, he will be compelled to move Bombay High Court to curb the game. Now, Nizam has finally filed Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking to create a review board to screen addictive games on mobile so that children don't ruin their life by neglecting education.
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," NDTV quoted petitioner's lawyer Tanveer Nizam as saying.
It can be noted that Gujarat government has already enforced a ban on PUBG Mobile in primary schools across the state. A few weeks ago, the student body of J&K and doctors' association, citing low scores in class 10 and 12, had urged the governor to ban the PUBG Mobile.