India, Oct. 11 -- When a petitioner approached the Supreme Court for the restoration of their blocked WhatsApp account, the apex court reportedly refused to entertain the petition and also pitched Arattai as an alternate.

The petitioner was being represented by Senior Advocate Mahalaxmi Pavani who said that the person had been using WhatsApp for the past 10-12 years and used the app to communicate with the clients as he worked at a poly-diagnostic center, LiveLaw reported.

"What is your fundamental right to have access to WhatsApp?" the bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta reportedly said and added "There are other communication applications, you can use them. Recently, there's this indigenous app called Arattai...use that. M...