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Letter to BS: WhatsApp should have a corporate office in India

WhatsApp does not have a registration policy for its users

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It is praiseworthy to note that our Union Minister of IT, Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked the social media platform WhatsApp to take certain corrective measures. These are in view of the social havoc created by some posts/messages propagating innnuendos, rumours and gossip, all with a malicious and vexatious intent, purportedly to disturb social harmony and incite violence. 

WhatsApp has become part of our daily lives. But such messages by anti-socials and mischief mongers need to be seriously supervised, monitored, targeted and quickly booked to pre-empt the ensuing harm. The entity most competent to execute such an operation

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