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Delhi High Court Seeks Status Report in Plea Seeking Constitution of SIT to Investigate Alleged Digital Fraud And Click Fraud Scam By Facebook

Lawstreet Journal 5 Apr 2021 10:00pm

Image courtesy: Lawstreet Journal Judiciary Delhi High Court Seeks Status Report in Plea Seeking Constitution of SIT to Investigate Alleged Digital Fraud And Click Fraud Scam By Facebook

The Delhi High Court recently approached Delhi Police Cyber Cell's status report in a plea pertaining to alleged click fraud and other digital criminal fraud and other digital criminal frauds hatched by Facebook thereby seeking directions on Union of India, Delhi Police and Cyber Crime Cell to jointly constitute a Special Investigation Unit (SIT) for investigating into the complaint made by the petitioner company.


Justice Anu Malhotra vide order dated Wednesday March, 24th, 2021 asked the Cyber Crime Cell to file the status report and listed the matter for further hearing on Thursday April 15th 2021.

The petition was filed by Vas Data Services Pvt. Ltd., a company running its operations through www.yepme.com. It also claimed that Facebook, maliciously acted and misused its dominance in the clickable advertisement industry, causing undue and unlawful losses to the petitioner company.


The petitioner company was represented through Senior Advocate Maninder Singh along with other Advocates namely Gaurav Singh, Aekta Vats, Anuj Singh, Vediccaa Ramdanee and Anant Singh.

The petitioner company claimed that on being induced by Facebook’s market reputation, it had availed the ad services from Facebook. 

However, in the event of any Facebook user clicking the petitioner's advertisement, majority of them ended up on the petitioner's web page due to which increase in traffic of prospective customers could not be achieved.

Petitioner's Complaint Against Facebook With Cyber Cell

The petitioner company was availing Facebook’s services 2011, made periodic payments on the number of clicks landing on its website on the basis of invoices submitted by Facebook. But, after noticing a drop… Continue Reading...


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