{"id":1016010,"date":"2026-06-20T12:24:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016010"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:24:54","slug":"telegram-ban-imposed-ahead-of-neet-re-test-upheld-by-delhi-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/20\/telegram-ban-imposed-ahead-of-neet-re-test-upheld-by-delhi-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram ban, imposed ahead of NEET re-test, upheld by Delhi HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi high court on Friday upheld the government\u2019s decision to block instant messaging service Telegram for six days ahead of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) reexam on Sunday, citing the emergency nature and sufficient grounds for the move.<\/p>\n<p>Telegram was blocked days after the NEET-UG was rescheduled following the exam cancellation on May 12, even though 2.27 million students had taken it across 551 cities. The central agencies found that the question paper had been compromised. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi high court on Friday upheld the government\u2019s decision to block instant messaging service Telegram for six days ahead of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) reexam on Sunday, citing the emergency nature and sufficient grounds for the move. Telegram was blocked days after the NEET-UG was rescheduled following the exam cancellation on May 12, even though 2.27 million students had taken it across 551 cities. The central agencies found that the question paper had been compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016010","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016011,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016010\/revisions\/1016011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}