New Delhi, July 4 -- The Centre has asked Apple and Google to remove seven mobile apps used to remotely disable battery-operated vehicles, days after videos of pranksters immobilising e-rickshaws with a tap on their smartphones went viral across Indian social media. "Meity issued notice to Google Android and Apple iOS to remove 7 applications from their App Store for misuse of apps for shutting down batteries in e-rickshaws/vehicles," said a government official. The apps - BAT-BMS, SMART BMS, JBD-BMS, XiaoXiangElectrics, JKBMS, Lossigy and Epoch-i-ion - connect to vulnerable Bluetooth-enabled battery management systems (BMS) and have been used to switch off vehicles mid-journey, according to a senior government official at the Union ministr...