Delhi: Former Attorney General of India (AG) Mukul Rohatgi has expressed his unwillingness to take on Chinese app TikTok as a client following the ban imposed by the Modi led BPJ government on 59 China-origin apps. Rohatgi has refused to represent TikTok, citing that he will not represent a Chinese company against the Government of India amid the current ‘tense times’.
Earlier, TikTok, in its first response after the ban, had said called the ban temporary and said that it was complying with the ‘interim order’. It said that it would meet concerned government stakeholders for an ‘opportunity to respond and submit clarifications’ and take the issue forward.
TikTok’s counter
The Government of India took the call to ban 59 China-origin apps, including TikTok, UC Browser, ShareIt among other apps following several reports about the misuse of some mobile apps available on Android and iOS platforms for “stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorised manner to servers which have locations outside India”.
In its statement, TikTok said that it was in the process of complying with the ‘interim order’ and that it had been invited to meet govt stakeholders to respond and submit clarifications. The statement further added that TikTok has democratized the internet by making it available in 14 Indian languages, with hundreds of millions of content creators getting a platform to showcase their talent.
PNN
