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The Delhi High Court connected Friday (November 7, 2025) ordered Google to instrumentality down 2 YouTube channels hosting and circulating deepfake and fabricated videos impersonating writer Rajat Sharma.
“Keeping successful the averments made successful the exertion categorically asserting the videos uploaded connected these channels are fake, doctored and AI-generated impersonating plaintiff no. 1 (Mr Sharma) and spreading misinformation, the tribunal is satisfied that the plaintiff has made retired a lawsuit for issuance of directions arsenic prayed for,” Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora said.
The tribunal besides directed Mr. Sharma and Google to person a communal gathering wherever the writer tin bring to Google’s attraction the deepfake content. It asked Google to guarantee that identical contented is removed.
Mr. Sharma’s suit alleges that the firms were perpetuating gross misinformation, including done wrongful usage of AI for the instauration of doctored videos bearing his distorted, modified, and modulated images oregon dependable and different property traits.
The tribunal granted liberty to Mr. Sharma to attack Google regarding immoderate different mendacious oregon fake videos uploaded against him connected immoderate different transmission and ordered Google to instrumentality them down wrong 48 hours.
Earlier, different Bench of the tribunal passed an interim bid protecting Sharma’s property rights, portion ordering the removal of immoderate contented bearing doctored traits of the TV journalist.
