Don't think it's the latter considering that the schools that are being vacated are in Ganderbal which is the only district of valley enroute to Ladakh. So most probably it's got to do with Ladakh fiasco.
If you had read the article, it says that the application was put on sale by pakistani company on code canyon and already 200+ users have purchased the source code of this application. It was not specifically sold to an indian IIT guy.