BGMI ban in India: All official statements and recent developments

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Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) received a lot of love from fans and successfully replaced PUBG Mobile. However, on 28 July 2022, the Government of India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) ordered the Krafton-backed game's removal from the Play Store and App Store.

The order was meant as a response to the allegations of data sourcing to Chinese servers. Thus, Battlegrounds Mobile India met the same fate as PUBG Mobile and has been banned in India. Some developments have occurred as official statements have made their way to the internet post the BGMI ban.

After Battlegrounds Mobile India received a ban, official statements from Google and Krafton surfaced online. However, it has been a while since the response/statement from the concerned authorities or publishers/developers was released.

Here are the official statements that fans were able to witness after the ban on the game:

As Battlegrounds Mobile India disappeared from the Play Store and App Store, it was Google that provided the actual reason behind the removal via its response.

Here is what Google's official statement read after the removal of Battlegrounds Mobile India:

The order mentioned in the statement was speculated as the direction the Government of India gave. Although there was no official confirmation of such an order from the Indian government's side, various reports in the following days confirmed the ban on BGMI.

Krafton, the publisher and developer of Battlegrounds Mobile India, also released its response on the matter. Two statements were released, which highlighted different concerns. The initial statement was merely an immediate update that hinted at Krafton enquiring about the removal of the game from the app stores.

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