A framework for online gaming was prepared by the government for the first time, said Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology (IT) on Monday.
Online Gaming Framework Defined
On June 12, Chandrasekhar announced that the government will not allow three types of online games in the country.
Further, the three types of games that the ministry will be banning include games that involve online gambling, betting and games involving a factor of addiction, according to the Union Minister.
This is for the first time, the ministry has prepared a framework regarding online gaming, “in that we will not allow 3 types of games in the country,” said Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
How Did This Happen?
Interestingly, this ban on certain online games comes in the backdrop of a recent racket busted by Ghaziabad Police.
It has links in Mumbai of some people trying to illegally convert youngsters using online games.
This issue came to the light as the father of a boy in Ghaziabad complained to police about his son having converted to Islam after getting influenced by one Baddo alias Shahnawaz Khan.
They said that the boy who was converted used to go to a local mosque to pray five times a day.
When parents asked the boy about where he was headed, he used to say he was going to the gym.
They got suspicious and one day, parents followed him after he left the house.
That is when they found that he was going to a local mosque and not any gym.
After that revelation, the cleric of the mosque was arrested by Ghaziabad police.
Baddo was arrested in Mumbai following a complaint filed by the father of the minor Jain boy converted into Islam.
Later on, Ghaziabad Police informed a TV news channel that the accused used to target boys for illegal conversion on online gaming platform Fortnite.
In this game, after losing, they were made to recite Islamic verses.
It became intense in the later stages, the boys used to be introduced to videos of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik and other preachers like Tariq Jamil.
