In a fresh move against the Chinese mobile phone applications, the government has banned 118 more mobile apps. Popular app PUBG is among the mobile apps banned by the Information and Technology Ministry on Wednesday.

The government said these apps were “prejudicial to Sovereignty and Integrity of India, Defence of India, Security of State and Public Order” in its notification announcing ban on the Chinese mobile apps.

With this, the total number of Chinese mobile phone apps banned by the Indian government goes up to 224. The government had first banned 59 Chinese apps days after the violent clash between Indian and the Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in June.

It was followed by another restriction order in which 49 more Chinese mobile apps were banned in India.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology banned these apps invoking its power under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act. It said the decision was taken in the view of the emergent nature of threats.

The government said the action against these mobile phone apps was taken after it received many complaints from various sources about stealing users’ data and surreptitiously transmitting them in an unauthorized manner to servers located outside India.