India, July 24 -- Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has claimed that the Indian government ordered GitHub to remove multiple repositories linked to bitchat, an open-source messaging app that enables peer-to-peer communication over Bluetooth mesh networks without requiring internet access or centralised servers.

Dorsey shared on X a notification issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), which functions under the Union home ministry, dated July 23. According to the notice, GitHub was directed to remove or disable access to three URLs related to the project within three hours.

The order covered the project's main source code repository, its Android repository, and the Android releases page.

The development comes amid ongoin...