Blocking Notifications/instructions to Internet Service Licensees under court orders (Jul - Sept 2026)

By Email/ DoT Website

File No.: 4-10/2025-DGT/4 (Part-VI) Government of India Ministry of Communications Department of Telecommunications Director General Telecom HQ 2nd Floor, UIDAI HQ, New Delhi -110001

Date: 05-08-2026

To All Licensees with Internet Service Authorization

Subject: CS(COMM) 837 of 2024: Star India Pvt. Ltd. vs. MovieBlast Application & Ors. in the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi.

Please find enclosed the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi order(s) dated 26.09.2024 in the captioned case.

2. Please refer to para(s) 43 & 44 along with additional list-176 regarding blocking access to the website(s)/domain(s) [01 no.], as per the enclosed list.

3. In view of the above, all Licensees with Internet Service Authorization are hereby instructed to take immediate necessary action in respect of blocking access to the said website(s)/domain(s), as per the enclosed list, in compliance with the said court order(s).

Encl: A/A

Digitally signed by Sudhir Date: 05-08-2026 09:23:53

ADG (T) Email: adgnt.hq-dgt-dot@gov.in

Copy to:

i) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), New Delhi (cyberlaw-legal@meity.gov.in) - Requested to take action as per the said Court order/ enclosed Annexure pl.

ii) Mr. Vivek Kumar (v.kumar@saikrishnaassociates.com), Plaintiff's Counsel - For kind information and with a request to take action as per the enclosed Annexure pl.

iii) The Special DGT, Delhi LSA – For kind information and further necessary action.

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CS(COMM) 837 of 2024: List – 176

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Fwd: Re: URGENT | DOT | One Hundred Seventy-Sixth (176th) additional list of 1 domains / URLs | Compliance of Order dated 26.09.2024 passed in Star India Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. v. MovieBlast Application & Ors. [CS. (COMM.) 837 of 2024] before the Hon'ble Delhi High Court

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Manish Shukla dirit.hq-dgt-dot@gov.in Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:27:25 AM +0530

To "ADG Technology DGT HQ"adgnt.hq-dgt-dot@gov.in,"Arun Kumar" consnt.hq-dgt-dot@govcontractor.nic.in,"Kripa Shanker Pandey"adt.hq-dgt-dot@gov.in,"SUNIL KUMAR"const1.hq-dgt-dot@govcontractor.nic.in

हार्दिक शुभकामनाओं के साथ/ With warm regards, मनीष शुक्ला / Manish Shukla निदेशक (टी), डीजीटी मुख्यालय/ Director (T), DGT HQ [Image omitted. See the official document.]

============ Forwarded message ============ From: Vivek Kumar v.kumar@saikrishnaassociates.com To: secy-dot@nic.in, "Cyber Law Legal"cyberlaw-legal@meity.gov.in, "Deepak Goel" gccyberlaw@meity.gov.in, "Prafulla Kumar"pkumar@meity.gov.in, "Dr S Sathyanarayanan"sathya.s@meity.gov.in, "Manish Shukla"dirit.hq-dgt-dot@gov.in Cc: "Ashok Yadav"ashok.yadav1@jiostar.com, "Ankush Mahajan" ankush.mahajan@jiostar.com, "Snehima Jauhari"snehima@saikrishnaassociates.com, "Yatinder Garg"yatinder@saikrishnaassociates.com, "Ram Panchal" ram.panchal@jiostar.com Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:00:15 +0530 Subject: Re: URGENT | DOT | One Hundred Seventy-Sixth (176th) additional list of 1 domains / URLs | Compliance of Order dated 26.09.2024 passed in Star India Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. v. MovieBlast Application & Ors. [CS. (COMM.) 837 of 2024] before the Hon'ble Delhi High Court

============ Forwarded message ============ One Hundred Seventy- Sixth (176th) additional list of 1 domains / URLs

Dear sir,

We write to you on behalf of our Client, Star India Private. Ltd., a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1956, having its registered office at Star House, Urmi Estate, 95, Ganpatrao Kadam Marg, Lower Parel (West) Mumbai 400013 and also has a local office at Vatika Business Centre, Thapar House, Gate No.1, Eastern & Central Wing, 3rd Floor, 124 Janpath, New Delhi 110001. (“Our Client”).

Our Client is a leading entertainment and media company in India engaged, inter alia, in the production of popular content broadcast on its STAR channels. Our Client is also an exclusive right owner for several works broadcasted on its STAR channels. Our Client, along with its affiliates, is the owner of an extensive portfolio of more than 70 channels in over nine languages – including channels like Star Movies, Star Bharat, Star Gold, Jalsha Movies, Star Sports 1, Star Sports HD 1, Star Sports Select 1, Star Sports Select HD 1, Maa Movies, Star Plus, to name a few (all channels owned and/or distributed by Our Client are hereinafter collectively referred to as “STAR Channels”).

Our Client owns and operates the online audio-visual streaming platform and website, ‘www.hotstar.com’, and the mobile application, ‘Disney+ Hotstar’, formerly known as ‘Hotstar’ (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Disney+ Hotstar”). With the widest range of content in India, Disney+ Hotstar offers over 100,000 hours of TV shows and movies across 8 languages, Disney+ originals, latest American shows, blockbuster Hollywood movies and content from international studios, exclusive new content from the Hotstar Specials label, regional and national news, and coverage of every major global sporting event.

Responding to copyright infringement of exclusive rights in the work of our Client’s work/content (“Content”), a Suit was instituted against various rogue websites (impleaded as Defendant Nos. 1 - 3 in the captioned matter) which engage in illegal and infringing activities (list of the domain names / websites is attached herewith), before the Hon'ble Delhi High Court, inter alia, for permanent injunction restraining violation of its exclusive statutory rights in the Content . Our Client also impleaded various Domain Name Registrars (Defendant No. 4-8), Internet Service providers (Defendant No. 9-17) as well as the concerned government departments (Department of Telecommunication and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) (Defendant No. 18 and 19), as Defendants, to ensure effective compliance of any orders that the Hon'ble Delhi High Court was inclined to pass.

The above-mentioned matter came up before the Hon’ble Justice Mr. Amit Bansal, Delhi High Court on 26th September 2024. The Hon’ble Court was pleased to pass an ex-parte ad-interim order. The relevant para of the Order dated 26.09.2024 is extracted herein below:

“38. In view of the averments noted hereinabove and in view of the judgment passed in UTV Software Communication Ltd. (supra), this Court is of the opinion that a prima facie case is made out in favour of the plaintiff. Balance of convenience is also in favour of the plaintiff. Further, irreparable harm or injury would be caused to the plaintiff if an interim injunction order is not passed.

39. Accordingly, defendants No. 1 to 3 (and any such other UIs/websites which appears to be associated with any of the defendant apps and websites based on its name, branding or the identity of its operator, or discovered to provide additional means of accessing, the defendant apps and websites, and other domains/domain/apps/UIs along with their sub domains and subdirectories, owners/website operators/entities which are discovered to have been engaging in infringing the plaintiff’s exclusive rights), their owners, partners, proprietors, officers, servants, employees, and all others in capacity of principals or agents, acting for and on their behalf, or anyone claiming through, by or under them are hereby restrained, from, in any manner hosting, streaming, reproducing, distributing, making available to the public and/or communicating to the public, or facilitating the same, on their Apps/UIs/websites, through the internet in any manner whatsoever, any cinematograph work/content/programme/show in relation to which plaintiff has a copyright.

40. The defendants No. 4 to 8 shall ensure compliance with this order by blocking defendants no. 1 to 3 websites, their URLs and the respective UIs as filed along with the suit (Pg 1 - Vol 1) (also annexed herewith as annexure - A) and any other UIs/apps/websites notified by the plaintiff by filing of an affidavit.

41. The defendants no. 4 to 8, their directors, partners, proprietors, officers, affiliates, servants, employees, and all others in capacity of principal or agent acting for and, on their behalf, or anyone claiming through, by or under it, are directed to disclose the following information of the defendants no. 1 -3 (and any such other websites/UIs which are discovered during the course of the proceedings and notified on Affidavit by the plaintiff to have been infringing/ authorizing the infringement of the plaintiff’s exclusive rights, copyrights and broadcast reproduction rights):