The High Court on Monday asked the Union Ministry of Communications and the Jammu and Kashmir government to respond within four weeks to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking ban on online access to battle game, PUBG, in the state.
A bench of Justice Ali Muhammad Magrey and Justice Tashi Rabstan granted four more weeks’ time to J&K government for filing the response after its additional advocate General, Shah Aamir, requested for the same. The Court also granted Assistant Solicitor General of India Tahir Shamsi four weeks to file response following his submission that the paper book was not made available to him in keeping with the order the court issued on March 13.
On 19 March, the High Court had notices to the communications ministry, J&K state, secretary to the J&K government (IT and technical education department), universities of Kashmir and Jammu and directors school education Kashmir and Jammu.
The petitioners have said that parents in J&K have expressed strong resentment against the PUBG (Players Unknown Battle Grounds).The petitioners further said that in Jammu and Kashmir, where laws like Disturbed Areas Act and Armed Forces Special Power Act are in force, youth addicted to online video games that show blood and violence besides free and mindless use of arms creates a wrong precedence and breeds violent thoughts and criminal behavior in the young minds.
