Delhi HC Dismisses Telegram's Plea Over NEET Retest Ban Nation

The Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the Centre's move to temporarily restrict access to the Telegram messaging app ahead of the June 21 NEET-UG re-exam, holding the order was "not disproportionate".

Orally pronouncing the substantive portions of the verdict, a vacation bench of Tejas Karia said, "After considering all the arguments, we find that given the emergency nature, the reasons supplied



are sufficient and the government has followed the procedure in Section 69A."

A separate direction requires Telegram to disable in India the message-editing feature for already-posted messages till June 30, 2026, addressing the specific structural feature through which the platform has been used to fabricate after-the-event "paper leak" evidence in respect of national examinations.