Government has issued a notice to Telegram platform under the Information Technology Act, 2000, to remove pirated content from its application. In its notice, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has asked the application to remove and disable access to the concerned Telegram channels. It has directed the platform to remove more than 3,100 Telegram channels which have over one thousand one hundred pirated content, within three hours of the issue of the notice without vitiating the evidence in any manner.