New Delhi, June 19 -- The Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the Centre's decision to temporarily block Telegram ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination, observing that the platform's architecture enables rapid amplification of unlawful content and that narrower measures had failed to curb misuse linked to examination fraud.

Dismissing a petition filed by Telegram FZ LLC, Justice Tejas Karia held that Telegram's technical features, including large public channels, cloud-based storage, extensive bot ecosystems, username-based operations, mirror channels and message-editing capabilities, made it particularly susceptible to misuse for spreading misinformation and facilitating fraud.

The Court observed that even when specific channels are r...