{"id":1015894,"date":"2026-06-20T09:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015894"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:19:54","slug":"delhi-high-court-upholds-temporary-telegram-ban-amid-neet-exam-fraud-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/20\/delhi-high-court-upholds-temporary-telegram-ban-amid-neet-exam-fraud-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi High Court upholds temporary Telegram ban amid NEET Exam fraud concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court has upheld the Centre\u2019s temporary restrictions on Telegram, backing the government\u2019s decision to curb the platform\u2019s use in facilitating examination-related fraud and paper leak activities ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination. <\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, the government argued that Telegram had been widely used by organised networks to circulate leaked examination papers, answer keys and other materials linked to cheating rackets. Officials maintained that the temporary restriction was necessary to protect the integrity of the examination process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court has upheld the Centre\u2019s temporary restrictions on Telegram, backing the government\u2019s decision to curb the platform\u2019s use in facilitating examination-related fraud and paper leak activities ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination. During the hearing, the government argued that Telegram had been widely used by organised networks to circulate leaked examination papers, answer keys and other materials linked to cheating rackets. Officials maintained that the temporary restriction was necessary to protect the integrity of the examination process.<\/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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015894","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=1015894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015911,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015894\/revisions\/1015911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}