New Delhi, July 15 -- A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved before the Delhi High Court seeking the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe an alleged organised cyber-extortion racket that exploits Instagram's copyright enforcement mechanism to disable users' accounts and allegedly extort money from content creators for restoring them.

The petition, filed by Nitin Joshi, came up before a Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyay and Justice Tejas Karia on Wednesday. Justice Karia recused from hearing the matter, following which Chief Justice Upadhyay directed that the case be listed before another Bench on July 28, 2026.

According to the petition, the alleged racket involves the filing of fa...