This occured when there occured a sad and sorrowful incident admist the tense border standoff between India and china beijing ,a incident which killed 20 indian army in June 15 by china troops along the line of actual control .Even we came to know from Minister of Information Technology that there is misuse of mobile apps available on Android and Ios platforms where stealing and transmitting user's data in an unauthorised manner to servers which have location outside India. It was hostile to national security,defence of India, which impunges upon
Sovereignty and integrity of India ,was matter of concern. For this situation , sufficient steps required to be taken.
Therefore , government came forward with the task of banning all these apps whether used with internet or not . There were variety of apps like starting from e commerce to gaming, social media browsers, sharing file and message to china. All are geting transmitted to beijing agencies.
At present , india again banned 47 apps which arè variants of chinese apps. the apps are Tiktok lite, helo lite, shareit lite, BIGO live lite, VFY lite.
Chinese company was having 300 million users of their apps , 2/3 rd of mobile phones downloaded their product.
Tiktok apps ban led to drastic effects to people especially youngsters . A 18 years old tiktok creator committed suicide. People mentally became sick for these chinese apps.