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NCPCR wants gaming app Fortnite, messaging platform Discord probed over conversion of minors to Islam
FirstpostIn a letter to MeitY, NCPCR’s Chairperson Priyank Kanoongo wrote that it had come across a news article, wherein it was informed that two men, including a caretaker of a mosque in Ghaziabad and a man from Mumbai man, were involved in religious conversion of a minor boy through Fortnite The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has asked the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to initiate an enquiry against online gaming platform - Fornite, and instant messaging social platform - Discord for their alleged role in religious conversion of a minor Jain boy and two other Hindu boys in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad. In a letter to the Secretary of MeitY, Alkesh Kumar Sharma, NCPCR’s Chairperson Priyank Kanoongo wrote that it had come across a news article, wherein it was informed that two men, including a caretaker of a mosque in Ghaziabad and a man from Mumbai man, were involved in religious conversion of a minor boy through Fortnite. “The need to incorporate an effective framework to bar minors from accessing prohibited websites along with punishments is of utmost importance for the Commission… It is further to be enquired about the availability of such alleged online gaming platform over Android and iOS interfaces or on any browser… the Commission in best interest of the children deems it appropriate to ensure that best efforts are made to monitor the framework of such online gaming applications with respect to the restriction of the minor children to these platforms," The NCPCR said. Police informed that a case of religious conversion was registered on 30 May at Kavi Nagar Police Station, in which two people were named and were identified as Shahnawaz Khan alias Baddo, a resident of Thane and Nanni alias Abdul Rehman, a Maulvi at a mosque in Sanjay Nagar area.
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