Justice K Kumaresh Babu, in an interim order, directed Star to “send an email with the username and the URL from which such bots are posted so Telegram can block and delete them.”

The messaging platform Telegram on Friday told an Indian court it cannot monitor all the accounts it hosts to look for leaked customer data from India's Star Health, and will only block problematic content that is flagged to it.

The Madras High Court has instructed Star Health, India’s largest health insurance provider with a market capitalisation of approximately $4 billion, to assist Telegram in identifying leaked data from its messaging platform.

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An Indian court in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has told insurer Star Health to help Telegram identify data leaked via its messaging app so the chatbots can be deleted. The country's biggest insurer with roughly $4 billion market cap approached the Madras High Court in the southern state of Tamil Nadu after Reuters reported on Sep.