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It was discovered by Pierre Wintgen. In the present work, we deal with the Riemannian maps between Riemannian manifolds that serve as a superb method for comparing the geometric structures of the source and target manifolds. This article is the first to explore a well-known conjecture, called DDVV inequality (a conjecture for Wintgen inequality on Riemannian submanifolds in real space forms proven by P.J. De Smet, F. Dillen, L. Verstraelen and L. Vrancken), for Riemannian maps, where we consider different space forms as target manifolds. There are numerous research problems related to such inequality in various ambient manifolds. 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