Telegram challenges India’s order temporarily blocking the app

The company has gone to the Delhi High Court over a block tied to alleged cheating on a national medical-entrance exam, a measure affecting more than 150 million users.

Telegram has asked the Delhi High Court to overturn an Indian government order that has temporarily blocked the messaging app, the company’s most direct legal confrontation yet with one of its largest markets.

The order, in force until 22 June, was issued after the National Testing Agency alleged that organised cheating rings were using Telegram to defraud candidates sitting a re-examination for NEET-UG, India’s national medical-entrance test.

The mechanics of the block are sweeping. Telecom operators have been instructed to cut access and the app has been removed from app stores, a combination that affects more than 150 million users in India.

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