HC SEEKS REPLIES FROM CENTRE, FB, GOOGLE, YAHOO ON BLUE WHALE

NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the Centre, Facebook, Google and Yahoo to respond to a plea seeking removal of links to the Blue Whale challenge from the internet.

The Blue Whale challenge, which has claimed many lives in India and abroad, is a game in which a player is given certain tasks to complete in 50 days. The final task is to commit suicide.

The high court directed Google, Yahoo and Facebook to submit a status report with regard to steps taken in pursuance to Centre’s direction to ban the game.

Earlier this month, the government had directed Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Ins tag ram, Microsoft and Yahoo to immediately remove the links of the game.

The Central Board of Secondary Education too issued a circular, asking schools to install effective firewalls, filtering and monitoring software mechanisms in all the computers.

UPBANS GAME

THE HC ALSO ASKED THE INTERNET GIANTS TO SUBMIT A STATUS REPORT ON STEPS TAKEN IN PURSUANCE TO CENTRE’S ORDER TO BAN THE GAME

Concerned over suicide by children due to Blue Whale challenge, UP D GP Sulk han Sing hon Tuesday banned the game in the state. Singh said the ministry of electronics and information technology and ministry of home affairs had directed the state governments to impose a blanket ban on the game.