United Kingdom, April 26 -- WhatsApp will pull out of India if it is told to stop end-to-end encryption.

The Meta-owned messaging service would have no choice but to leave India if the country wants them to stop scrambling data to ensure that only those with the decryption key can gain access, WhatsApp told the Delhi High Court in its legal battle against the Union of India.

WhatsApp's Tejas Karia told a Division Bench in New Delhi: "As a platform, we are saying, if we are told to break encryption, then WhatsApp goes.

There is no such rule anywhere else in the world, not even Brazil. We will have to keep a complete chain and we don't know which messages will be asked to be decrypted. It means millions and millions of messages will have...