Telegram moves Delhi HC against temporary ban
Social messaging app Telegram has moved Delhi High Court challenging the decision of central government to temporarily restrict the access to platform in India.
Per a report by Bar and Bench, advocate Mahav Khosla has mentioned the matter before a vacation bench of Justice Tejas Karia. The Court has allowed the issue's urgent listing today.
This comes just a day after Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov criticised the Indian government's temporary ban on the platform in the wake of recent national entrance examination-related leaks.
“India’s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions. This punishes 150M+ ordinary Telegram users in India — not the insiders who leaked the exam materials. And the ban hasn't stopped anything. The leaks just moved to other apps,” Durov wrote in a post on X on Tuesday.
The remarks come after the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced temporary restrictions on Telegram in India until June 22 and directed the platform to disable message editing until June 30.
The Centre has ordered Google and Apple to delist the Telegram app from their app stores till June 22 to check paper leaks during the upcoming re-examination of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) on June 21.
According to the national agency, Telegram was extensively used by cheating networks to circulate fake claims of a NEET paper leak and fabricate evidence intended to mislead candidates and trigger public confusion.
Per a report by Bar and Bench, advocate Mahav Khosla has mentioned the matter before a vacation bench of Justice Tejas Karia. The Court has allowed the issue's urgent listing today.
This comes just a day after Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov criticised the Indian government's temporary ban on the platform in the wake of recent national entrance examination-related leaks.
“India’s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions. This punishes 150M+ ordinary Telegram users in India — not the insiders who leaked the exam materials. And the ban hasn't stopped anything. The leaks just moved to other apps,” Durov wrote in a post on X on Tuesday.
The remarks come after the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced temporary restrictions on Telegram in India until June 22 and directed the platform to disable message editing until June 30.
The Centre has ordered Google and Apple to delist the Telegram app from their app stores till June 22 to check paper leaks during the upcoming re-examination of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG) on June 21.
According to the national agency, Telegram was extensively used by cheating networks to circulate fake claims of a NEET paper leak and fabricate evidence intended to mislead candidates and trigger public confusion.
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