The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) received the orders by email. The senders posed as lawyers. The papers carried the names of the Rajasthan and Allahabad High Courts.
Police and court officials checked them and found they were fake. The logos and seals were made up. One paper even had a false QR code.
The orders and related letters sat on the DoT website for months. As of November 14, one fake order was still open for anyone to read. The other had been taken down.
Online betting is illegal in India. But the case shows a big gap in the way the government shuts down sites. If officials do not check papers well, anyone can use a forged order to hit a site that has done nothing wrong.
