Telegram, the instant messaging app on which government imposed access restrictions ahead of the June 21 re-exam for medical entrance examination National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG), appears to remain blocked for some users in India who are still unable to send or receive messages even after the June 22 expiry date for the curbs.A 3D-printed Telegram app logo and small toy figurines are seen in front of India flag in this illustration (REUTERS)The government, in an interim order issued on June 16 under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, directed Telegram and its associated URLs to be blocked across India till June 22, and ordered the platform to disable its message-editing feature till June 30. While some users continued to experience access restrictions and some were able access the messaging app on Tuesday, a day after it was scheduled to be restored, an IT official told HT that there are no plans to extend the ban, indicating that the restoration of services might be getting rolled out in a phased manner. Following a hearing before a committee constituted under Rule 7 of the IT blocking rules on June 17, the secretary, ministry of electronics and information technology, passed a final order on June 18 confirming the interim directions — the order under challenge.The block was seen as an attempt to prevent any possible irregularities ahead of the June 21 re-exam of NEET-UG, which was originally held on May 3 but got cancelled on May 12 after overlaps emerged between a leaked guess paper and the actual one, triggering a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe and 13 arrests.