India, Oct. 3 -- Apple has removed Bitchat, the offline messaging app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, from its India App Store following a demand from the Union government.

Dorsey posted an image of an Apple App Review notice on X on Saturday and wrote that the Indian government had "officially" removed Bitchat from the App Store.

The notice says Apple was removing the application from the India App Store following a demand from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. It states that the app included content considered illegal in India and did not comply with Apple's legal requirements for applications.

According to the notice, MeitY issued the takedown demand under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act...