"MeitY does not grant permission for starting of any websites / mobile Apps / service. Accordingly, MeitY has not granted permission to PUBG / PUBG mobile India." That is the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's full response to MediaNama's RTI application with multiple questions on whether PUBG Mobile India's creators have asked for, and received, its blessing to operate. PUBG Mobile India's Korean publishers have long sought to assure the government that control of the application is no longer in the Chinese company Tencent's hands, and that a deal with Microsoft protects the government's supposed concern for user data; to top it all off, Krafton Inc., which owns the PUBG IP, censored the game to remove gory visuals, another apparent concern the government seems to have had. In spite of all this, the IT Ministry, which banned the Tencent…
