New Delhi, June 17 -- The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice on a plea filed by instant messaging platform Telegram challenging the Central government's decision to temporarily block its operations in India till June 22 in connection with the upcoming NEET-UG re-examination.

A vacation bench of Justice Tejas Karia granted liberty to the Centre and other respondents to file their replies along with all supporting documents and listed the matter for further hearing at 2:30 PM on June 18.

The matter was mentioned for urgent hearing by Advocate Madhav Khosla on behalf of Telegram. During the hearing, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta appeared for the Centre through video conferencing along with Additional Solicitor General Chetan Shar...