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Anil Kapoor v. Simply Life India & Ors.

Delhi High Court's 2023 omnibus order protecting an actor's persona against AI, deepfakes, face-morphing and voice misuse

IN-DLDelhi ·High Court of Delhi

Sep 20, 2023 Interim order

Status checked Oct 14, 2026

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Digital India Act (proposed replacement for the Information Technology Act, 2000)

The proposed successor to the IT Act, meant to rework safe harbour and regulate high-risk AI, which has stalled with no draft bill

INIndia (Union) ·Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

Mar 9, 2023 Proposed

Status checked Oct 15, 2026

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