New Delhi, June 17 -- Mumbai,

New Delhi :

The Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to grant immediate interim relief to Telegram against the Centre's temporary ban on the instant messaging platform ahead of the NEET-UG re-examination on 21 June.

Hearing the app's urgent petition, Justice Tejas Karia issued notice to the Centre, seeking its response to the challenge against the blocking order.

Counsel for Telegram argued that the government order contained no valid grounds for blocking the platform. In response, solicitor general of India Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Union government, said he possessed specific information, including user IDs, and had alerted the platform to the issue, asking it to rectify its systems. "They were r...