New Delhi, April 11 -- Telegram's leadership publicly questioning WhatsApp's encryption claims. The timing is notable, coming alongside a fresh lawsuit that has put Meta's messaging practices under renewed scrutiny. At the centre of the debate is a familiar but increasingly critical question: how secure are private messages on widely used platforms?

Pavel Durov, Founder and CEO of Telegram, has openly criticised WhatsApp's promise of end-to-end encryption, calling it misleading. In a post on X, he stated, "WhatsApp's 'encryption' may be the biggest consumer fraud in history - deceiving billions of users. Despite its claims, it reads users' messages and shares them with third parties. Telegram has never done this - and never will."

His c...