Parents in Bhatkal warned against PUBG after Eid Prayers
Bhatkal: Bhatkal Muslim Youth Federation (BMYF) a local organisation that looks after the youth’s affairs in the town on Wednesday issued statutory pamphlets against popular addictive game PUBG in Bhatkal and distributed it among thousands of Muslim parents on Eid day after the prayers.
The move comes in the wake of several incidents from across the country where the addiction of the game has led to the deaths and serious accidents, while thousands of other youngsters have been receiving counselling and treatments.
The pamphlets that were distributed in three languages (English, Kannada and Urdu) warned parents of keeping their children away from the game as the addiction of the game is much like the “angel of death roaming around the child”.
Recently, a 16-year old boy in Madhya Pradesh died after playing the game for six hours continuously. He suffered cardiac arrest which the doctors said was due to a surge in adrenaline caused due to the excitement in game.
Similar reports have come from different parts of the country where the addiction of the game has led to serious accidents. Several NGOs have stepped up the game against the game and are spreading awareness about the threat it poses for the players.
BMYF, a popular organisation holding a strong grip and influence over the youth of the town has also stepped in to spread the awareness and has launched a campaign which was kicked off by distributing pamphlets on Eid day followed by sending the soft copies of the pamphlets in WhatsApp group for it to reach a higher number of people.
In a recent report, the World Health Organization has declared that gaming disorder is indeed a thing and addiction can cause mental health conditions.
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2019 mud attack on engineer: Maharashtra court sentences BJP minister Nitesh Rane to one-month jail
Mumbai (PTI): A court in Sindhudurg on Monday convicted Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane in a 2019 case of pouring mud on an NHAI engineer when he was in opposition, and sentenced him to one-month imprisonment, noting that lawmakers are not supposed to take the law into their hands.
Later, the court suspended Rane's sentence, allowing him time to appeal before a higher court, while acquitting 29 other accused in the case.
"Even though Rane's intention was to raise a voice against the poor quality of work and inconvenience faced by the people, he was not supposed to humiliate or insult a public servant in public," additional sessions court judge V S Deshmukh stated.
"If such incidents continue to occur, public servants would not be able to discharge their duties with dignity," the judge noted.
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Calling the act "abuse of power", the court held that "it is the demand of time to curb such tendency".
Rane, a son of former Union minister Narayan Rane, was among 30 people charged under various offences, including rioting, assault to deter a public servant, and criminal conspiracy. He was in Congress when the incident occurred.
All the accused, including Nitesh Rane, were acquitted of these offences, as the court found insufficient evidence to support most of these claims.
However, the court found Nitesh Rane guilty of an offence under section 504 (intentional insult meant to provoke a breach of public peace) and sentenced him to one month's jail.
Rane, then a Congress MLA, had called the Sub-Divisional Engineer of the National Highway Authority, Prakash Shedekar, to a bridge over the Gad river in Kankavli on July 4, 2019, for inspecting the work to widen the Mumbai-Goa Highway.
According to the prosecution, Nitesh Rane and his followers, frustrated by the poor quality of the roadwork and waterlogging, confronted the engineer. They poured muddy water on Shedekar and forced him to walk through slush in public.
The court, after perusing the evidence on record, noted that the informant (victim) was holding a high post in the National Highway Authority.
"Despite that, he was made to walk through the muddy water in public. It would have certainly humiliated and insulted him," the court remarked.
The judge held that Rane compelling Shedekar to walk through the muddy water "was nothing but an intentional insult to the informant," and provocation which will cause him to break the public peace.
