BGMI Banned In India || BGMI Ban Again 

The Government of India has banned BGMI under Section 69A of the Indian IT Act, blocking public access to the content in the interest of national security, among other reasons.


Government of India has banned Krafton's Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI). Alphabet Inc's Google and Apple have removed the Krafton game on July 28, 2022, citing an Indian government order. The incident comes a year after the country banned the popular game PUBG.

According to a Reuters report, the government has banned the royale battle-ground format game, using a section of the IT law to ban Chinese apps from 2020 over national security and data sharing concerns, a source told Reuters.

Under a similar provision of IT laws, the Indian government has banned more than 100 Chinese apps from 2020, including Chinese publisher Tencent Games' PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG).

BGMI is the Indian version of Tencent's PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) which recently crossed over 100 million registered users in India. The Crafton game was relaunched in India as BGMI, a year ago due to huge demand from gamers.


BGMI is one of the largest Chinese apps to relaunch and rebrand after the Indian government banned PUBG Mobile on 02 September 2020.

So far, the Indian government has banned more than 270 apps, suspected of stealing data from Indian users and sharing it with Chinese entities.

Many of these apps came back to India with re-branded and new identities while their competitor apps tried to sweep and fill the void left by others.

Like PUBG and BGMI, a new kingdom for Indian gamers, Garena also launched Garena Free Fire Max after the ban of Garena Free Fire.

Recently, a 16-year-old boy killed his mother on PUBG. A young boy is addicted to playing Crafton. He became enraged after his mother abused him and asked him to stop playing. Later, he shot his mother on 04 June 2022 with his father's licensed gun.

Earlier this year, Prahar, a non-profit organization working for socio-economic development of the community, had written to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Information Technology requesting a ban on BGMI under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act.

Meanwhile, a large Oxford University study says the short-term mental-health effects of playing video games are "probably too small" to be noticeable.