The app was still available on Apple's platforms late on Tuesday, but was no longer available on Google's Play Store in India.
has blocked access to the hugely popular video app TikTok in India to comply with a state court's directive to prohibit its downloads, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
The federal government had sent a letter to Apple and Google to abide by the state court's order, according to an IT ministry official. It had been downloaded more than 240 million times in India, app analytics firm Sensor Tower said in February. More than 30 million users in India installed it in January 2019, 12 times more than in the same month last year.
The top court had referred the case back to the state court, where a judge on Tuesday rejected Bytedance's request to put the ban order on hold, K. Neelamegam, a lawyer arguing against Bytedance in the case, said. The state court has requested written submissions from Bytedance in the case and has scheduled its next hearing for April 24.
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