Overview
- On Tuesday the Ministry of Electronics and IT ordered platform access to Telegram restricted across India until June 22 and directed Telegram to disable its message‑editing feature in India until June 30.
- Telegram filed a legal challenge in the Delhi High Court on Wednesday and its CEO and digital‑rights groups criticised the move as disproportionate because it affects millions of legitimate users.
- The National Testing Agency says the measures are designed to protect the NEET‑UG re‑examination scheduled for June 21 and follows earlier channel takedowns that authorities judged insufficient.
- Law enforcement has arrested suspects linked to inter‑state Telegram channels, with the Ahmedabad cyber crime branch reporting roughly Rs 1.5 crore routed through fake accounts as part of alleged fraud networks.
- Students remain anxious despite new safeguards such as isolated paper‑setters, military transport of papers, biometric checks and mass CCTV deployment and observers say the court fight and technical workarounds will determine whether the curbs stop fraud or push it to other platforms.