India Investigates Forged Court Orders Used to Block Betting Sites

Bengaluru, 11 November 2026 – India’s Department of Telecommunications directed internet providers to block 129 betting websites under two purported state high court orders that the courts later found or suspected were fraudulent. The Allahabad High Court filed a police complaint on 6 November over the document attributed to it, according to case records reported on 11 November. A Rajasthan High Court registrar said the other order appeared to be fraudulent and was not in the court’s records.

For Asian businesses that depend on online access, the case raises a question about how an order is verified before it interrupts a service. The affected sites were identified as betting websites; the findings do not establish that the same documents were used against unrelated businesses. They do show that a direction passed through a government process can still rest on a document whose authenticity is later disputed.