New Delhi, Nov. 12 -- Uttar Pradesh Police have registered a case against unidentified persons after the Allahabad High Court found that an order carrying its name, used by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to block 95 betting websites, was forged.

It is one of two instances this year in which the DoT asked internet service providers to block betting sites on the basis of court orders that turned out to be fake, according to a Reuters investigation. The second order was attributed to the Rajasthan High Court.

Between them, the two orders led to 129 websites being blocked.

Neither order appears in the registration records of the two courts, Reuters found.

FIR for forgery, cheating

The Allahabad High Court administration filed...