{"id":1015632,"date":"2026-06-19T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015632"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:03:23","slug":"telegram-has-become-the-new-dark-web-centre-tells-delhi-high-court-flags-terror-cybercrime-and-neet-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/19\/telegram-has-become-the-new-dark-web-centre-tells-delhi-high-court-flags-terror-cybercrime-and-neet-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Telegram has become the new Dark Web\u2019: Centre tells Delhi High Court, flags terror, cybercrime and NEET leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that the Telegram messaging platform was being widely misused for a range of unlawful activities, including cybercrime, financial fraud, terrorism-related communication and circulation of leaked examination papers. <\/p>\n<p>The submission was made through an affidavit filed by a scientist from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in response to Telegram\u2019s petition challenging the government\u2019s decision to temporarily restrict access to the platform ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination scheduled for June 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that the Telegram messaging platform was being widely misused for a range of unlawful activities, including cybercrime, financial fraud, terrorism-related communication and circulation of leaked examination papers. The submission was made through an affidavit filed by a scientist from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in response to Telegram\u2019s petition challenging the government\u2019s decision to temporarily restrict access to the platform ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination scheduled for June 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015654,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015632\/revisions\/1015654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}