The Indian government said on Wednesday that 129 gambling websites were blocked earlier this year based on two falsified orders from state high courts.
\n\nThe fake orders were first reported by Reuters, which discovered two orders for website blocking issued by the Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT) were based on purported orders from the high courts in the provinces of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh that did not actually exist. The fake court orders were sent to DoT in July and August, and each led to website bans within a few days.
\n\nAfter finding no mention of the court orders cited by DoT in the online registration systems of the two high courts, Reuters contacted the registrar of the Rajasthan High Court, whose signature appeared on the phony court document. The registrar said his signature “appears to be fraudulent.”
\n\nThe high court in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, announced the court order cited by DoT was “fake” and launched a police investigation. The investigators appeared to have some unnamed suspects in mind, but have yet to announce any arrests.
\n\nReuters noted that DoT has yet to pull down the phony court orders from its website, or rescind the website blocking orders that were…
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