Defending ban on Telegram for NEET-UG re-exam, IIT-Kanpur Director Manindra Agrawal claimed the platform can spread fake news as its feature allows editing of posts without reflecting that edit has been done. Sharing edit feature's screenshot, ethical hacker hired by IIT-Kanpur Nisarga Adhikary said, "Telegram client is open source...Here's the relevant code for the edit date/time function."