Mobile messaging platform WhatsApp banned 18.58 lakh Indian accounts in January on the idea of complaints obtained from customers by way of its grievances division and the corporate’s personal mechanism to forestall and detect legislation violators, in response to a month-to-month report printed on Tuesday.

WhatsApp obtained grievances towards 495 Indian accounts which appealed to ban 285 accounts, out of which 24 have been banned.

The majority of the 18.58 lakh accounts have been banned primarily based on dangerous behaviour detected by way of instruments and sources deployed by the corporate in its app.

“The data shared (banning of 18.58 lakh accounts)…highlights the number of Indian accounts banned by WhatsApp between 1 January, 2022 – 31 January, 2022 using the aforementioned abuse detection approach, which also includes action taken in furtherance to negative feedback received from users via our ‘Report’ feature,” stated WhatsApp’s India Monthly Report below the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules (or IT Rules), 2022.

The firm identifies Indian accounts through ISD code of +91 prefixed earlier than the 10-digit cellular quantity.