New Delhi, July 24 -- The Indian government directed GitHub to disable access to three URLs associated with Bitchat on Thursday, a Bluetooth mesh messaging application.

The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), under the Ministry of Home Affairs, identified the application as a communication platform capable of establishing decentralised peer-to-peer messaging over Bluetooth mesh networks without relying on mobile networks, internet connectivity, or centralised servers.

The application enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification, or centralised logging of communications.

Reacting to the notification, Bitchat developer Jack Dorsey said on X, "The government of India does not lik...