IIT Madras Director warns against fake ‘paper leak’ claims, demonstrates how Telegram messages can be manipulated

Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madras and a member of the National Security Advisory Board, has cautioned students and the public against blindly trusting alleged “paper leak” screenshots and documents circulating on Telegram, highlighting a potential vulnerability that can be exploited to create misleading evidence.

During a live demonstration, Prof. Kamakoti showed how a PDF file shared on Telegram at 3:39 PM could later be replaced with an entirely different document while still displaying the original timestamp.