Amritsar, February 8: Notices reading "TikTok is prohibited here" were seen in the Golden Temple in Amritsar after a few devotees shot and uploaded videos from inside the Sri Harmandir Sahib, said reports. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) put up the posters inside the Golden Temple as it doesn't want devotees to start the trend of shooting videos inside the temple premises. TikTok Tarnishing India's Image in the World & Spoiling Youth, Says Petition Before Bombay High Court.

Jaswinder Singh, the manager at the Sri Harmandir Sahib, said that if youth don't stop shooting and making videos inside the temple premises, then the SGPC would have to ban mobile phones inside the temple. TikTok Ban in India Lifted by Madras High Court, Chinese App Free For Download.

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"We appeal to devotees coming here to refrain from such activities as it is a place of worship. Jathedar Sri Akal Takht Sahib yesterday said if youth don't stop making videos then we'll ask SGPC to ban mobile phones in Temple premises," said Jaswinder Singh, manager at the Sri Harmandir Sahib.

The Golden Temple has followed Delhi's Jama Masjid and other places of worship which have banned the Chinese video making app, TikTok. Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid, had said that the app will be banned inside the mosque. TikTok has reached over 1.5 billion downloads worldwide on the App Store as well as Google Play and India leads the chart with 466.8 million or about 31 percent of all unique installs.

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