Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 14: Division Bench of State High Court comprising Justice Rajesh Bindal and Justice Tashi Rabstan today issued notice to Secretaries of Ministry of Women & Child Development, Ministry of Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development and Chief Secretary J&K in a PIL seeking ban on Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) game.
The notices were accepted by Assistant Solicitor General of India Vishal Sharma on behalf of Union of India and AAG Amit Gupta on behalf of Chief Secretary.
The notices were issued in letter written by 7th class student Kushagra Sharma of Air Force School Satwari to Chief Justice which has been treated as Public Interest Litigation.
“The issue raised by the young child is that lot of students are becoming addict to many games which are now freely available on mobile phones. Name of one of the game mentioned in the letter is PUBG. There are many other games also. Because of addiction to play the games, the students waste their lot of time which otherwise could be utilized for their studies or other constructive purposes”, DB observed.
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