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An unpublished advisory asking platforms to prioritise government complaints and to label manipulated or synthetic content on current events
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
How the Delhi and Bombay High Courts have used personality rights to restrain AI voice clones, deepfakes and chatbots
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Delhi High Court decree of 5 October 2026 permanently enjoining AI deepfake videos that falsely showed a cardiac surgeon endorsing drugs
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The Supreme Court has declined to frame AI or deepfake rules by writ and, in September 2026, stayed a Gujarat High Court deepfake PIL at the Union's request
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
A 2026 Gujarat High Court PIL that pushed platforms to onboard the SAHYOG takedown portal, until the Supreme Court stayed it in September 2026
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
A draft that would make MeitY advisories part of intermediary due diligence on pain of losing safe harbour, and extend media oversight to user news posts
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Delhi High Court order of 20 March 2026 against chatbot platforms Character.AI and Janitor AI hosting AI personas of the actor
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
India's first binding AI-specific content rules: labelling, provenance and prevention duties for deepfakes, and a three-hour takedown deadline
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
MeitY's notice to X over Grok-generated obscene images, with a 72-hour action-taken report and a warning of lost safe harbour
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
MeitY's framework of seven 'sutras', six pillars and new institutions that governs AI through existing laws rather than a standalone AI statute
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Delhi High Court orders of 9 and 10 September 2025 protecting the Bachchans against AI chatbots, deepfakes and merchandise
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Two 2025 committee reports urging watermarking, labelling, licensing of AI content creators and tighter safe harbour, with no formal government response found
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Delhi High Court's 30 May 2025 "dynamic+" injunction against AI deepfakes of spiritual leader Sadhguru used in scams and false endorsements
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
Public interest petitions that pushed MeitY to form a Committee on Deepfakes; the lead matter is still pending in the Delhi High Court
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
ECI's first deepfake-specific directions to political parties, requiring removal of deepfake audio and video within three hours during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls
Status checked Oct 14, 2026
The advisory that first required government permission for 'under-tested' AI models, drew a start-up backlash and was rewritten two weeks later
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
MeitY's first deepfake advisories, issued after the Rashmika Mandanna video, warned platforms that failing to act would cost them safe harbour
Status checked Oct 15, 2026
The proposed successor to the IT Act, meant to rework safe harbour and regulate high-risk AI, which has stalled with no draft bill
Status checked Oct 15, 2026