A troubling investigation has revealed that the Indian government inadvertently blocked 129 illegal gambling websites this year based on two completely fabricated court orders. The Department of Telecommunications acted on these fraudulent directives, which bore official seals and appeared to originate from the High Courts of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. These documents, which triggered mandatory takedowns by internet service providers, were later exposed as forgeries that do not exist within the courts' official digital registration systems.

The revelation has sparked a formal police inquiry, specifically following a complaint filed by the Allahabad High Court after their name was misused in one of the forged documents. This incident highlights significant vulnerabilities in India’s stringent content removal mechanism, raising concerns about how easily administrative protocols can be manipulated by malicious actors. As global concerns grow regarding the misuse of technology and artificial intelligence in fabricating legal precedents, experts warn that these sophisticated hoaxes threaten the integrity of the judicial system and public trust in government regulatory actions.