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Player Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile has taken India by storm, to the point where rumors are making rounds of the apparent ban on the game throughout all of India.

What seemed like a court-ordered notice has been doing the rounds on Facebook lately, or at least what appears to be a photo of such an order. It mentions how the game is purportedly distracting students from their education and is creating a nuisance.

Of course, even a slight cursory study of the text will show you that the "ruling" is rather fishy. For one thing, there is no High Court of Maharashtra, that would have to instead have been the Bombay High Court. It is also signed by a prejudge, a designation that does not exist within the Indian judicial system. And of course, there are also multiple grammatical errors in the text that are a dead giveaway.

It is clear this is just a troll post which, since it can't cause any real harm, was clearly designed for shits and giggles. And it stands to reason, given that about 62 percent of Indians play the game, some for even up to eight hours a week.

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There was, in fact, a recent PUBG ban, but this was one initiated by the developers. In the aftermath of a mass of cheaters in the game, the developers released an anti-cheat module within the last Vikendi update, that can detect and auto-ban players for installing mods that break the game in their favor.

Up to now, at least 30,000 accounts have been banned, including those of a few pro players as well.

-Sowmya Sangam