Mumbai: Online gamers reserve spot in public, citizen alerts cops
Pradeep Gupta | TNN | Updated: Apr 7, 2019, 05:46 IST
The notice put up in Badlapur was torn down by the copsBADLAPUR: A group of PUBG game players has courted controversy by reserving a place on a road below a tree by putting up a poster that reads: ‘This place is reserved only for PUBG game players. By order of Vijay Bhau’.
Seeing the poster last week, a Badlapur resident approached the Thane police through Twitter by posting a picture of the poster and sought action.
Acting on the information, the Thane police instructed officials of Badpaur police station who removed the poster put up in at Katrap locality and warned the youth not to play the game there.
A police officer said that those who have put up posters are college students from the locality who used to assemble there to play the game. “They must have put it up just for fun. But after we warned them, no one comes there to play now,” said the officer.
PUBG is an online game where about 100 players fight it out for all combat where the sole survivor emerges victorious.
There have been calls to ban the game as it is “addictive” and has been linked to poor results of students in exams besides violence.
Recently, an 11-year-old student had filed a plea through his mother, requesting the Bombay high court to ban PUBG as it “promotes violence, aggression and cyber-bullying”.
Seeing the poster last week, a Badlapur resident approached the Thane police through Twitter by posting a picture of the poster and sought action.
Acting on the information, the Thane police instructed officials of Badpaur police station who removed the poster put up in at Katrap locality and warned the youth not to play the game there.
A police officer said that those who have put up posters are college students from the locality who used to assemble there to play the game. “They must have put it up just for fun. But after we warned them, no one comes there to play now,” said the officer.
PUBG is an online game where about 100 players fight it out for all combat where the sole survivor emerges victorious.
There have been calls to ban the game as it is “addictive” and has been linked to poor results of students in exams besides violence.
Recently, an 11-year-old student had filed a plea through his mother, requesting the Bombay high court to ban PUBG as it “promotes violence, aggression and cyber-bullying”.
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