PUBG Mobile stars Scout and Mortal are competing in a gaming showdown today. However, details about which game they will be playing is still not revealed. PUBG Mobile is still banned in India and consumption of the game publicly is against the law. AORUS India took to Instagram to announce the Scout and Mortal showdown which will be probably, “The biggest clash of 2020.”
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One will be able to catch all the action between the players on AORUS India’s YouTube channel today from 4 pm IST.
PUBG Mobile has been banned in India and any form of accessing the game through VPN or other tools is not legally appropriate. A few days back, entrepreneur/blogger Adeeb Sayeed filed a warning letter against those who are still accessing the game despite the ban.
In order to create an argument, many content creators asked for a “text from the government, explicitly saying that the PUBG Mobile KR (Korean) version of the game is banned.” They believe that the government has only banned the global versions of the PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite apps in India. PUBG Mobile KR offers cross-play function therefore even though they are not playing the Global version of the game, they are still queuing up with teammates who are using the PUBG Mobile Global server, which is blocked by the government.
To shed some more light on the matter, an RTI was filed by Prasoon Shekhar, a law student inquiring about the ‘provision of law if somebody disobeys the ban imposed on Chinese apps like CamScanner, PUBG Mobile and more.’ MeitY quickly responded, “MeitY does not ban any App. However, blocking of specified Apps was done under the provisions of Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and its Rules namely Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking Access of Information by the Public) Rules, 2009. Section 69A of the Act provides for a penalty to intermediaries for non-compliance of the blocking order. However, no penalty is prescribed for individual users of such Apps.”
As of now, AORUS India hasn’t revealed which game the two players will compete in; if it is PUBG Mobile then they could get prosecuted and penalised since they are publicly breaking the law to access the app which is still banned in India.