India, June 17 -- The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Tuesday blocked Telegram and ordered the company to disable its message-editing feature - two directions issued on the recommendation of the National Testing Agency (NTA) ahead of the NEET-UG re-examination on June 21.

The move targets organised fraud operations running on the app. The editing restriction addresses a design vulnerability that the NTA said channel administrators had exploited to fabricate evidence of paper leaks. It involved uploading a blank document before an examination and replacing it with the actual question paper afterwards, while Telegram's architecture preserved the original, pre-exam timestamp, they said.

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