{"id":2277,"date":"2026-06-18T08:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:08:20","slug":"how-india-sparred-with-telegram-days-ahead-of-blocking-the-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2277","title":{"rendered":"How India sparred with Telegram days ahead of blocking the app"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>NEW DELHI, June 18 (Reuters) &#8211; India privately rebuked Telegram for not proactively removing accounts offering purported leaked exam papers while the company accused \u200bNew Delhi of misrepresenting meeting records, an impasse that led to an unprecedented ban of the app, documents show.<\/div><div>Telegram has challenged the ban \u200cby Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government in the Delhi High Court. The government invoked emergency powers to block Telegram in the country until June 22 amid concerns the platform was being abused to defraud candidates for NEET, a prestigious national entrance test for medical colleges.<\/div><div>The exam results were cancelled in May on suspicion that question papers were leaked, and the \u200btest been rescheduled for June 21.<\/div><div>Telegram, which has 150 million users in India, its biggest market, has said in its court papers the ban undermines \u200bconstitutional protections and free speech rights. The fight marks the latest tussle between a tech company and Modi after the \u2060government fought Elon Musk&#8217;s X last year in court over the company&#8217;s strict restrictions on taking down content.<\/div><div>Documents seen by Reuters show the June 16 Telegram \u200bban order followed two weeks of back-and-forth exchanges and meetings between India&#8217;s IT ministry and company officials, with New Delhi accusing Telegram of &#8220;inaction&#8221; on channels like &#8220;NEET \u200bPAPER LEAKED&#8221; and &#8220;Paper Leaked NEET&#8221; which it said clearly indicated their suspicious nature. Some demanded money by claiming they could provide the &#8220;full (exam) paper&#8221;.<\/div><div>Telegram retorted in subsequent e-mails, saying it was &#8220;surprised at the suggestion that it has been inactive in addressing unlawful content&#8221; and it does not permit the use of its services for any such activity.<\/div><div>India&#8217;s IT ministry and Telegram did not \u200brespond to Reuters queries.<\/div><div>WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in India with over 500 million users, but Telegram has a unique attraction. Its groups can hold \u200bup to 200,000 members &#8211; far beyond WhatsApp&#8217;s cap of 1,024, and it allows users to interact without exposing a phone number.<\/div><div>Those features have also made it a favoured platform \u200cfor fraud \u2060and other illicit trade, critics say, though Telegram denies these allegations and says it acts promptly against rogue elements.<\/div><h2>TELEGRAM EXPRESSING FRUSTRATION<\/h2><div>The Indian government says the issue of purported frauds linked to the NEET exam is &#8220;most pronounced on Telegram&#8221;.<\/div><div>The undergraduate medical entrance exam at the centre of the dispute is taken by more than 2 million students, and the cancellation of the results caused a political storm, including demands for the resignation of the country&#8217;s education minister.<\/div><div>Telegram&#8217;s founder Pavel Durov has \u200bsaid the Indian government&#8217;s ban &#8220;is a mistake&#8221; \u200bwhich punishes its users while \u2060leaks can just move to other apps.<\/div><div>It has also taken a dig at the move without referring to India.<\/div><div>&#8220;Over 300,000 people die of drowning each year. In order to protect society, it is now illegal to consume or possess \u200bwater,&#8221; Telegram said in one post on its X account.<\/div><h2>FIGHT OVER MEETING RECORD<\/h2><div>Behind closed doors, tensions rose between Telegram \u200band Indian officials after \u2060a June 3 meeting, with the company saying in an e-mail to Indian officials that minutes of the meeting did not accurately capture their discussions.<\/div><div>The government records said Telegram stated in the meeting it had limitations in proactively detecting &#8220;more subjective&#8221; content linked to exams, instead of &#8220;objective issues&#8221; like child sexual material and pornography.<\/div><div>Telegram rebutted, writing \u2060in a \u200bJune 5 e-mail that it was not that it didn&#8217;t have proactive measures for such \u200bcontent, but it was only that they require more moderation.<\/div><div>In its court petition against the ban, the messaging app has taken stronger objection to the government&#8217;s minutes, calling them a &#8220;one-sided and inaccurate account \u200bof the discussions&#8221; that &#8220;deliberately&#8221; omitted details of the company&#8217;s proactive processes.<\/div><div>The government is yet respond to those allegations in court.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Arpan Chaturvedi\" class=\"wp-image-2276\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/e7919bbefd2816cf8cb5b8a0bb0cf46f.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Arpan Chaturvedi<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>X<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>Linkedin<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Aditya Kalra\" class=\"wp-image-1837\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/59c5ba115e62b85f3cda2b4176ca4ead.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Aditya Kalra<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>X<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>Linkedin<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2274\">Drone strikes beyond the battlefield pump up market for technology to repel them<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2272\">Exclusive: UK in advanced talks with Nissan over Sunderland plant support, sources say<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2269\">Gulf exporters\u2019 quest to bypass Hormuz will reshape the region<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India privately rebuked Telegram for not proactively removing accounts offering purported leaked exam papers while the company accused \u200bNew Delhi of misrepresenting meeting records, an impasse that led to an unprecedented ban of the app, documents show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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