bengaluru following the high drama between paytm and google on friday the noidabased mobile payments company on sunday evening accused google of having a different set of policies when it comes to its apppaytm said google pay is running a similar cricketthemed cashback campaign called tez shots which offers rewards up to rs 1 lakh based on points and a lucky drawsearch engine giant google hit back saying that action was taken due to repeat violations and it does not discriminate among platforms in its policiesoffering fantasy gaming is core violation of policieson friday google had taken down paytm from its app store for several hours before restoring it later in the evening due to a cricket sticker promo on payments run by the company the alibaba and softbankbacked firm said that in tez shots different scores starting from 50 to over 1000 can result in rewards and discounts on different services that users avail via the google pay app presumably such cashback campaigns of google pay are not in breach of play store policies or maybe they are but a different set of rules apply to googles own apps the company said in its postwhen contacted a google spokesperson said that cashbacks and vouchers are not the core violation of the policies but offering fantasy gaming is paytm first games is the platform through which the company is present in fantasy gaming recently outlining a rs 300crore budget to promote the business and hired sachin tendulkar as brand ambassadorour policies dont allow online casinos or support any unregulated gambling apps that facilitate sports betting including daily fantasy sports in india in the case of repeated policy violations we may take more serious action which may include terminating google play developer accounts said the google spokespersonon the promotion of paytm first games through its main app it said google had alerted it three times on august 20 august 28 and september 1st raising a red flag on the mattertoi had reported on saturday citing this was one of the concerns raised by the internet search giant while we strenuously disagreed with allegation that we are breaching the policy and we disagree with the policy itself too we immediately complied with diktat that barred us from promoting our gaming subsidiary paytm saidwe wish to make it clear that driving traffic or promoting fantasy sports is not gambling conveniently paytm first games can do a paid promotion on youtube which is owned by google but it is not allowed to do the same advertisement on the paytm app as per google policy it added