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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Technology
Indu Bhan

HC questions Telegram ban ahead of NEET retest

The Delhi High Court on Thursday questioned the government’s rationale behind temporarily restricting messaging platform Telegram for nearly 150 million users in India ahead of the NEET re-examination scheduled for June 21.

While reserving its judgment on the Telegram FZ-LLC’s petition against the temporary ban on the messaging application till June 22, Justice Tejas Karia during the hearing questioned the Centre on how it could deprive the rights of 150 million Telegram users just because one set of citizens is appearing in the examination.

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