New Delhi: A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Telangana High Court seeking the ban of the popular addictive mobile game BattleGrounds Mobile India (BGMI).
This game was released in India on July 2, 2021 as the relaunched version of PUBG mobile that was banned by the Centre on September 2, 2020.
This case is set to go to trial in mid-March.
Anil Stevenson Jangam, an advocate based in Hyderabad, filed the petition where he said the BGMI is a “merely a different avatar of the banned PUBG mobile video game as it is likely to gravely affect the mental health and even lives of youngsters”.
The petition further added that the game “is a threat to the privacy of the citizens of India ” and also poses “national security issues”.
“BGMI and the banned application PUBG Mobile are one and the same game with only cosmetic changes. The new application BattleGrounds Mobile India is fraught with all the dangers its banned earlier version posed to our children and adolescents. Therefore, the new version also deserves to be banned.
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