NEW DELHI: Google<\/a>'s head of public policy for India has resigned just five months after taking the job, two sources told Reuters, at a potentially critical time for the U.S. tech giant as it awaits the outcome of at least two antitrust cases in the country.
The reasons for Archana Gulati<\/a>'s resignation were not immediately clear.
Gulati, who previously worked at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's federal think-tank, declined to comment. A spokesperson for Alphabet Inc's Google also declined to comment.
Google is facing a series of antitrust cases in India and stricter tech-sector regulations.
India's competition watchdog is looking into Google's business conduct in the smart TVs market, its Android<\/a> operating system, as well as its in-app payments system.
The watchdog is close to announcing its decision in at least two antitrust cases against Google, people familiar with the process said.
At Google, Gulati led a team of public policy executives who look at various regulatory implications for the company in India, one of its key growth markets.
She was a long-time Indian government employee, having worked until March 2021 as a joint secretary for digital<\/a> communications at Modi's federal think tank, Niti Aayog, a body that is critical to government's policy making across sectors.
Before that, between 2014 and 2016, she worked as a senior official at the Competition Commission of India, in its Mergers & Acquisitions division, according to her LinkedIn profile.
A number of Indian government officials have been hired by Big Tech<\/a> companies as they face tighter data and privacy regulation, as well as competition law scrutiny, under Modi's federal government.
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