India, Feb. 28 -- A Mumbai-based class 12 student, Aahana Parikh, has filed a complaint with the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal against the Instagram handle Mindfaces, run by content creator Jai Shah, who has 233,000 followers, alleging that he had copied study notes freely available on the State Council of Educational Research and Training's (SCERT) website and sold them to students for Rs.1,800 each as exclusive study material.

She was one of the many students who bought the material not knowing that it was already made available by the government. Soon, many similarly affected students spoke up and the issue snowballed into a dispute between Shah and another influencer, Pooja Gupta, who has also built a following based on shari...