PUBG: Authorities Probing Alleged Killing Due to Game’s Influence, Says MoS IT

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday stated regulation enforcement businesses are investigating to search out the explanation a few “media report that a child has killed his mother based on PUBG that he has been playing”. In a written replies to the Rajya Sabha, he additionally stated there are reviews and grievances of banned apps showing in new avatars utilizing similar-sounding names have been forwarded to the house ministry for examination.

The Minister of State for Electronics and IT additionally informed the Rajya Sabha that gaming app PUBG was banned by MeitY in 2020 and isn’t accessible within the nation.

He was responding to a question on whether or not crimes are being dedicated on affect of PUBG.

“There was a media report that a child has killed his mother based on PUBG that he has been playing. This is a matter of investigation by LEAs (Law Enforcement Agencies) to find the reason. But, the PUBG gaming app was blocked by MeitY in the year 2020 and the PUBG game is not available in India since then,” Chandrasekhar stated in a written reply.

According to him, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has acquired varied reviews and grievances acquired conveying that apps that had been blocked are showing with new avatars by utilizing comparable sounding names or rebranded with the identical performance and all such reviews have been forwarded to the house ministry for examination.

To a query on the federal government order to take away cell purposes and cause for eradicating apps from 2020, Chandrasekhar stated the federal government’s aims are aimed toward making certain an open, secure, trusted and accountable web for its customers.

In a separate written reply, he stated the federal government has notified the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.

The guidelines present for removing of apps, if an app is taken into account illegal underneath the extant regulation, by way of playstore or appstore as and when requested by an acceptable authorities or its authorised company, he added.

The minister additionally stated that MeitY doesn’t hold any particulars of removing of cell purposes underneath IT Rules, 2021.