Beware of fake Kimbho app, Patanjali removes original version from Google Play Store

New Delhi : A day after the launch of Patanjali’s Kimbho messaging app, it has been removed from Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store, saying it was released only for one-day trial. The company’s spokesperson said it would launch the app officially soon, after the completion of its technical development.

Recently, Patanjali spokesperson had tweeted about the launch of ‘Kimbho’, claiming it to be India’s reply to Facebook-owned Whatsapp. The company mentioned that it has placed the new app on Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store only for a day, that too for technical testing.

“We put our trial version of Kimbho app on Google Play Store and Apple Store for trial for a day only and we had witnessed around 1.5 lakh downloads in the first three hours. We thank the people for such encouraging response,” Patanjali spokesperson S K Tijarawala said.

“Now it is no more available on any platform for download,” he added. It is likely that Kimbho would be launched soon once the technical work is done successfully.

According to him, apps that looked like Kimbho on playstore are fake ones.

On Patanjali’s decision to remove the app from the Google Playstore and Apple’s App Store, Advocate Prashant Mali, cyber security and cyber law expert said, “Baba Ramdev’s IT Team did the same thing as BHIM App. No or little testing was done and such incidents expose huge data of Indian citizens to risk. This incident gives bad name to Make in India, Ramdev’s team should understand Make in India means not make only the label in India but the product too and cyber safe one.” Earlier this week, Patanjali had also formed partnership with state run BSNL to offer co-branded Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM cards to its employees.