The Delhi High Court has ordered the suspension of 125 websites and domain names allegedly using Reliance Industries Limited’s registered Jio trademark to offer lottery, gaming and related services. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav passed the interim order on October 7, 2026, in a trademark infringement suit filed by Reliance Industries Limited against Rahul Meena and others.
The Court also directed Google to disable access to a specified webpage hosted on its Blogger platform.
Background
Reliance Industries approached the Court claiming exclusive statutory and common law rights over its registered Jio trademark. The company alleged that several websites were using names such as “JIO,” “JIO LOTTERY” and “JIO LOTTERY GAME” in connection with lottery, gaming, payment-related and allied services.
The disputed domains included jiolotteryi.com, jiolotterylogin.com, jiolotterygame.com and other websites featuring similar names or structures. The defendants included domain name registrars, Google, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the Department of Telecommunications.
Reliance sought interim protection against the alleged unauthorised use of its trademark while the suit remained pending.
After examining the websites and their content, the Court found that they prima facie appeared to satisfy the test for identifying rogue websites established in its earlier decision in UTV Software Communication Ltd. v. 1337X.to.
The Court relied on the principle that a website’s primary purpose and effect, rather than merely the quantity of allegedly infringing material, are relevant when deciding whether the entire website should be blocked.
The order reproduced the following observation from the earlier judgment:
“The real test for examining whether a website is a Rogue Website is a qualitative approach and not a quantitative one.”
The Court also considered the difficulty of relying solely on individual URL blocking, since website operators can change web addresses and continue operating through alternative links.
The Court restrained Rahul Meena from registering, operating, controlling, promoting, advertising or otherwise using the Jio trademark and identical or deceptively similar marks in a manner amounting to trademark infringement.
It directed the concerned domain name registrars to suspend the websites and accounts listed in Annexure A until further orders. The annexure contains 126 entries, including the 125 websites covered by the suspension direction and a separately listed Blogger webpage.
Google was directed to disable access to and remove the specified webpage, https://wwwjiokbcindia.blogspot.com/, along with the allegedly infringing content.
The Court issued summons to the defendants and listed the matter for further consideration on November 30, 2026.
