Overview
- Bijoya Roy resigned as Google’s head of legal in India after about 16 months in the role, according to two people cited by Reuters.
- One source said she left for personal reasons and plans to start her own venture, and both Google and Roy declined to comment.
- The company faces active antitrust cases in India, legal challenges over how it trains artificial intelligence systems, and tougher content takedown rules that began applying in February 2026.
- Google’s head of public policy in India, Sreenivasa Reddy, quit last year and the company has not filled that government-relations post.
- India remains a key market for Google, with most phones running Android and a previously announced $15 billion AI data center plan in Andhra Pradesh from October 2025 still moving forward.