Google Pay Is A Third Party App Which Operates Within the Regime Set Up By National Payments Corporation of India: Google Informs Delhi HC
Live LawGoogle India has informed the Delhi High Court that Google Pay is a third party application for providing United Payments Interface service to various banks and it works within the regime and as per the guidelines of National Payments Corporation of India. The information was provided to the Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan in a plea seeking a ban on Google Pay for allegedly violating the law governing payments banks. As it is clarified by the Reserve Bank of India in its counter affidavit, Google Pay is just a third party app and it is not registered as a Payments Bank so as to make it subject to the regulations of NPCI. The counter affidavit further states that: 'Google Pay is also not the operator of a pre-paid payment instrument / wallet and is also not a PSP Bank regulated by RBI under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, and accordingly the question of requiring an approval from the RBI does not arise since Google Pay does not perform any of these roles/ functions.'