Anitha, recorded herself as she drank the poison and then sent the video via WhatsApp to her husband, who is in Singapore. Some news channels who published the video on YouTube have infact, disabled comments for the video. Owned by Chinese company ByteDance, the short video sharing platform claims to have over 120 million monthly active users in India. Later in April, Salman Zakir, a 19-year-old Delhi resident was accidentally shot by his friend who was trying to make a TikTok video. The app was pulled down from both, Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store until April 25 -- a day after the Madras High Court’s Madurai Bench lifted the ban.

Source: Hindustan Times June 13, 2019 12:45 UTC