{"id":1015797,"date":"2026-06-20T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015797"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:05:11","slug":"delhi-hc-upholds-telegram-ban-in-india-till-june-22-amid-neet-re-exam-paper-leak-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/20\/delhi-hc-upholds-telegram-ban-in-india-till-june-22-amid-neet-re-exam-paper-leak-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC upholds Telegram ban in India till June 22 amid NEET re-exam paper leak concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the government&#8217;s decision to suspend Telegram FZ-LLC&#8217;s services in India till June 22 as part of its efforts to prevent fraud during the NEET (UG) re-examination. <\/p>\n<p>The ban order does &#8220;not suffer from the vice of non-application of mind&#8221;, Justice Tejas Karia held in his order while dismissing the messaging platform&#8217;s petition challenging the restriction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the government&#8217;s decision to suspend Telegram FZ-LLC&#8217;s services in India till June 22 as part of its efforts to prevent fraud during the NEET (UG) re-examination. The ban order does &#8220;not suffer from the vice of non-application of mind&#8221;, Justice Tejas Karia held in his order while dismissing the messaging platform&#8217;s petition challenging the restriction.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015797","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=1015797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015820,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015797\/revisions\/1015820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}