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Payment app Paytm has been removed by Google from Play Store for allegedly violating its policies.

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• Paytm has been removed from Google Play Store.
• Google has removed the app from the Play Store for violating its guidelines.
• Google had said in a statement that it does not allow unregulated gambling.

Payment app Paytm has mysteriously disappeared from Google Play Store. The app, owned by One97 Communications Ltd, is not visible on being searched on Google Play Store whereas all the other apps including Paytm For Business, Paytm Money, Paytm Mall, and others owned by the company are still available on Play Store.

Be that as it may, Paytm is accessible for download on the Apple App Store.

Remarking on the expulsion from Play Store, Paytm in an announcement on Twitter stated, “Paytm Android application is briefly inaccessible on Google’s Play Store for new downloads or updates. It will be back very soon. All your cash is totally protected, and you can keep on making the most of your Paytm application as ordinary.”

Google has evidently taken out the Paytm application since it supposedly disregards the organization’s new principles around web-based betting. A source inside Google said that the Google group that worked with designers contacted Paytm consistently to fix the issues with the application. Be that as it may, Paytm made rehashed infringement of the Google strategy, noticed the source.

Paytm evaporated from Google Play Store a couple of hours after Google’s Suzanne Frey, who is Vice President, Product, Android Security, and Privacy, point by point the rules in a blog entry. “We have these strategies to shield clients from possible damage. At the point when an application disregards these arrangements, we advise the designer of the infringement and eliminate the application from Google Play until the engineer brings the application into consistence. Also, for the situation where there is rehashed strategy infringement, we may make a more genuine move which may incorporate ending Google Play Developer accounts. Our strategies are applied and authorized on all engineers reliably,” she composed.

“We have similar objectives for our betting arrangement. We don’t permit online club or backing any unregulated betting applications that encourage sports wagering. This incorporates if an application drives buyers to an outside site that permits them to take an interest in paid competitions to win genuine cash or money prizes, it is an infringement of our approaches,” composed Suzanne.

This means Google has clearly eliminated Paytm from the Play store since it accepted the application was abusing its new rules on web-based betting or challenges.

Reports have guaranteed that Google had told the designers of Paytm about the expulsion and it keeps on being in contact with Paytm to get the application back on Play Store.

Paytm is possessed by an Indian organization called One97 Communications Ltd, which was established by Vijay Shekhar Sharma however the organization had gotten monstrous subsidizing from fintech firm Ant Financials, which is a partner of China’s Alibaba gathering.