The Union government temporarily blocked Telegram to protect the sanctity of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) 2026 re-examination by a single interpretative sleight of hand which compressed an entire intermediary platform into an expression: ‘information’.

The ban won the endorsement of the Delhi High Court by stretching the meaning of ‘information’ under the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000.