<p>A PIL has been filed in the Gujarat High Court against developers of the location-based augmented reality game Pokemon Go, alleging it hurts religious sentiments of certain communities by showing eggs in places of worship.</p>
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<p>The petition has been filed by Alay Anil Dave and San Francisco-based developer of the game, Niantic, Inc., and Central and state governments have been made the respondents.</p>
<p>As per the plea, the image of eggs are shown in the augmented reality game appear in places of worship of different religious groups amongst other things.</p>
<p>The petitioner has said eggs are considered as non- vegetarian food, and it is blasphemous to carry non-vegetarian food inside a place of worship of Hindus and Jains.</p>
<p>Twitterati had a field day laughing at the 'ridiculous' plea. Here's how they reacted!</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gujarat High Court sends notice to "Pokemon Go company" for hurting religious sentiments...<br />.... <br />India mein kuch bhi ho sakta hai</p>
&mdash; Sanyukta (@sanyukta_) <a href="https://twitter.com/sanyukta_/status/773415091639287808">September 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Where do these judges come from? When we have millions of cases pending in courts for centuries Gujarat HC judge chose to chase Pokemon Go&eth;&Acirc;u00c2u009f&Acirc;u00c2u0098&nbsp;</p>
&mdash; Sahil Prasad (@laxmi407) <a href="https://twitter.com/laxmi407/status/773414592244510724">September 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">PIL filed in Gujarat HC against Pokemon Go. Communal riots are not a priority in that state, obviously.</p>
&mdash; lindsay pereira (@lindsaypereira) <a href="https://twitter.com/lindsaypereira/status/773418731741581312">September 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vegetarian games are "next" - or no onion no garlic ??;-)<br />PIL Filed Against Pokemon Go in Gujarat For Showing Eggs in Places of Worship</p>
&mdash; Sanjeev Shriya (@SanjeevShriya) <a href="https://twitter.com/SanjeevShriya/status/773399014825918465">September 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Seriously? Do we not have something better to do? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SentimentBhurji?src=hash">#SentimentBhurji</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FriedSentiments?src=hash">#FriedSentiments</a> <a href="https://t.co/mTgoLvGaDo">https://t.co/mTgoLvGaDo</a></p>
&mdash; Ashwin Mushran (@ashwinmushran) <a href="https://twitter.com/ashwinmushran/status/773365670859923456">September 7, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Another mega <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PokemonGo?src=hash">#PokemonGo</a> egg hatching Eight 5 KM eggs. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pokemongoindia?src=hash">#pokemongoindia</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gujarat?src=hash">#Gujarat</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ahmedabad?src=hash">#Ahmedabad</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pokemon?src=hash">#Pokemon</a> <a href="https://t.co/UTK7UuzE68">pic.twitter.com/UTK7UuzE68</a></p>
&mdash; Kishan Dabhi (@dabhikishan) <a href="https://twitter.com/dabhikishan/status/770977209599295488">August 31, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Some dude has a Public Interest Litigation to ban Pokemon Go in Gujarat high court. I am impressed with myself for living in this country</p>
&mdash; Arunmozhi (@tecoholic) <a href="https://twitter.com/tecoholic/status/765584991837237248">August 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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