High Court directs govt to ban PUBG, Free Fire

The High Court has directed the government to stop all kinds of "destructive" online games and apps like PUBG and Free Fire for the next three months.

The court also issued a rule asking the authorities concerned of the government to explain in 10 days why their inaction to stop such games and apps like TikTok, Likee, Bigo Live, PUBG and Free Fire should not be declared illegal.

The HC bench of Justice Mozibur Rahman Miah and Justice Kamrul Hossain Mollah came up with the rule and order following a writ petition filed seeking necessary directives to "save children and adolescents from moral and social degradation".

On June 24 this year a writ petition was filed with the HC as a public interest litigation on behalf of rights organisation Law and Life Foundation.