Safe Harbour Section 79

TELEGRAM AND DIGITAL SECURITY: CHALLENGES OF ENCRYPTED PLATFORMS IN PREVENTING PAPER LEAKS

The Indian government temporarily restricted Telegram and disabled its message-editing feature to curb massive cyber fraud related to the NEET-UG paper leaks. The crisis highlights the urgent tension between End-to-End Encryption (E2EE), platform accountability under IT Rules 2021, and the "going dark" challenge for law enforcement.