India, Dec. 3 -- The Indian government on Wednesday removed the mandatory pre-installation of Sanchar Saathi App for mobile phones after it had triggered a political debate in the country.

The Indian government on Wednesday removed the mandatory pre-installation of Sanchar Saathi App for mobile phones after it had triggered a political debate in the country.

" There is no other function other than protecting the users in the app and they can remove the app whenever they want. This has been clarified by Government," the statement said.

The government said 1.4 crore users have downloaded this app and are contributing to information on 2000 fraud incidents per day so far.

"The number of users has been increasing rapidly and the mandate t...