Government blocks 14 apps used by terrorists for chatting in Jammu & Kashmir
In another major step to curb terror activities, the central government has blocked 14 mobile messenger applications being used by terror groups, sources said. It is learnt that these applications were mostly being used by Over Ground Workers of different terrorist organisations based in Jammu and Kashmir to spread the message and to receive notifications from Pakistan.
The action was taken based on intelligence inputs shared with the Central government in a secret communication recently.
Soon after the information was shared with the Ministry of Home Affairs that these applications are being used by OWGs and members of different terrorist groups to circulate anti-India messages, the Ministry in close coordination with IT Ministry and other concerned agencies blocked them. As per sources, the majority of these mobile applications are specially designed to maintain the anonymity of the users as well as their inbuilt features also make it difficult in finding out the entities associated with them.
Through these applications, terrorist outfits and their affiliates were engaging their associates in Jammu and Kashmir to further their terror activities in the Union Territory and other places, said sources. As inputs received that these applications are being used to further terror propaganda and incite youths in Jammu and Kashmir, the Central government blocked them under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
The government has not released the names of these apps, but they join the list of hundreds of apps that have so far been blocked in India. In 2020, the government banned over 100 apps in one of the biggest purges for companies associated with China, following the skirmish in Galwan. The popular battle royale PUBG Mobile was one of those apps. While there was no major chat app on the list, the short video remix platform TikTok also got the boot.
— Written with inputs from ANI
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In another major step to curb terror activities, the central government has blocked 14 mobile messenger applications being used by terror groups, sources said. It is learnt that these applications were mostly being used by Over Ground Workers of different terrorist organisations based in Jammu and Kashmir to spread the message and to receive notifications from Pakistan.
The action was taken based on intelligence inputs shared with the Central government in a secret communication recently.
Soon after the information was shared with the Ministry of Home Affairs that these applications are being used by OWGs and members of different terrorist groups to circulate anti-India messages, the Ministry in close coordination with IT Ministry and other concerned agencies blocked them. As per sources, the majority of these mobile applications are specially designed to maintain the anonymity of the users as well as their inbuilt features also make it difficult in finding out the entities associated with them.
Through these applications, terrorist outfits and their affiliates were engaging their associates in Jammu and Kashmir to further their terror activities in the Union Territory and other places, said sources. As inputs received that these applications are being used to further terror propaganda and incite youths in Jammu and Kashmir, the Central government blocked them under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
The government has not released the names of these apps, but they join the list of hundreds of apps that have so far been blocked in India. In 2020, the government banned over 100 apps in one of the biggest purges for companies associated with China, following the skirmish in Galwan. The popular battle royale PUBG Mobile was one of those apps. While there was no major chat app on the list, the short video remix platform TikTok also got the boot.
— Written with inputs from ANI
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