"Can't allow ruin of whole generation": Delhi HC orders Google, Apple to act against apps promoting porn, crime
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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered Google and Apple to act strictly against mobile applications involved in pornography and prostitution and which are available through Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia remarked that it cannot "permit the whole generation of the country to be ruined". The Bench observed that the intermediaries like Google and Apple are obligated to act against such applications n