A ban 'amounts to curtailing of the rights of the citizens of India...who have been using the platform every day to express themselves and create content', the company said in a court filing
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the plea will come up for hearing in due course of time
Over three months, the BBC Trending collected hundreds of sexual comments posted on videos uploaded by teenagers and children on the app
Deals between the labels and the Chinese owner of the services, ByteDance, expire this spring, according to sources
Ministries say they are keeping a watch, with states having complained and wanting a ban
The Madras High Court, which has been hearing a public interest litigation against the app, on Wednesday said children who were using TikTok were vulnerable to exposure to sexual predators.
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TikTok allows users to create and share short videos with various special effects. It is becoming hugely popular in rural India, home to most of the country's 1.3 billion people.
TikTok has already been downloaded more than 80m times in the US, logging 4m downloads from the App Store in October alone. It is also one of the most popular apps on Google Play