During the urgent court hearings of the Indian government’s Telegram block, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta cited the Ministry of Home Affairs’ (MHA’s) report on Telegram in the Delhi HC and reasoned why Telegram’s “unique platform architecture” is enabling the illegal activity on its platform and therefore leading to the government’s emergency blocking order ahead of NEET re-examination.
Reuters reportedly got its hands on MHA’s non-public 35-page report and here’s what it revealed:
According to the MHA report on Telegram, it is used ‘extensively’ for:
- sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM),
- financial scams,
- fake job advertisements,
- online piracy and
- online harassment
Over 6.8 lakh cyber complaints and Rs. 71,017.5 crore loss: The MHA report apparently had the screenshots of some group with fake ads, CSAM, and a pirated version of Dhurandhar too. The report also said that the government has received more than 688,000 complaints related to cyber fraud on Telegram since 2023, causing an estimated loss of some $750 million (Rs. 71,017.5 crore) to Indians.
Therefore, the government reportedly said that it was “proactively monitoring” such groups on Telegram.
Read Reuter’s report here: [ Original | Archived ]
On the first day of hearing, before orally reading a few excerpts of the report on the second day, Tushar Mehta said that he would reveal the “factual foundations” behind Telegram’s emergency blocking order and added that the findings would be “shocking.”
Here is everything Mehta said during the court hearing that MediaNama attended, where he revealed select information from the report:
- Title of the report: Report on Abuse of Telegram for Cybercrime (2026)
- Date: June 10, 2026.
- Who prepared it: MHA’s Indian Cyber Crimes Coordination Center (I4C)
“The said report documents… the extensive and recurring misuse of Telegram for a wide spectrum of unlawful activities, including cyber attacks, purchase and sale of mules and rented bank accounts, operational and transactional cybercrime syndicates, malware distribution, data exfiltration, command and control infrastructure, circulation of violent and extremist content, dissemination of pirated content,” said Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.
Key points raised by Mehta from the MHA’s report on Telegram:
Telegram’s technical architecture makes it difficult for law enforcement: “The Telegram possesses certain technical and architectural features that distinguish it from other intermediaries and materially affect the ability of law enforcement agencies to prevent, detect, and investigate unlawful activities on the platform. Such features, when viewed cumulatively, create significant challenges in enforcement and facilitate rapid dissemination and persistence of unlawful content despite takedown measures.”
- Anonymity and disappearing messages, large files, and…
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