In a bizarre turn of events, a TikTok video helped a woman track down her missing husband, The New Indian Express reported. Suresh, who was married to Jayapradha from Villupuram, had gone missing one day in 2016. The wife and the two children he left behind could not find him despite intensive search operations. A police complaint was lodged. Three years later, Jayapradha's relatives, according to Express, caught a glimpse of the man in a TikTok video and, after confirmation from the wife, tracked him down.
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The Madras High Court, on April 3, had directed the Centre to ban TikTok app. In its order, the Madras HC had said it was evident from media reports that pornography and inappropriate content were made available through such mobile applications.
It had also directed the media not to telecast video clips made with TikTok. TikTok is popular among youngsters in the country. It allows users to create short videos and then share them.
On April 29, Justices N. Kirubakaran and S.S. Sundar lifted the ban after hearing submissions made by Isaac Mohanlal, counsel for ByteDance, which owns TikTok, and Amicus Curiae Arvind Datar. Datar, according to Bar and Bench, had argued that the ban was not a solution and that the rights of legitimate users should be protected.
Tech giants Google and Apple had removed TikTok from their app stores after the Supreme Court refused to stay Madras High Court order asking the Centre to prohibit the download of the Chinese social media platform.
