“As a platform, we are saying, if we are told to break encryption, then WhatsApp goes,” Mr. Karia told the Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Arora.
Adding to that, Mr. Karia said the rule would require WhatsApp to “store millions of messages for years”. He added, “We will have to keep a complete chain, and we don’t know which messages will be asked to be decrypted. It means millions of messages will have to be stored for a number of years”.