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Days after a case religious conversion through an online gaming application was uncovered by Uttar Pradesh police, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Monday said that the government for the first time has come up with a framework to address the menace...
Talking to reporters, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said, For the first time we have prepared a framework regarding online gaming, in that we will not allow three types of games in the country..
Games that involve betting or can be harmful to the user and that involves a factor of addiction will be banned in the country...
The Uttar Pradesh Police had recently uncovered a conversion racket in which teenagers were allegedly being targeted through an online gaming application Fortnite and were enticed to convert their religion...
Ghaziabad police then alerted Mumbra police regarding the religious conversion racket by Khan, which was being operated through an online game, said the officer...
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