Delhi High Court To Hear Vivek Oberoi, Janhvi Kapoor, Aaradhya Bachchan Personality Rights Suits Together

The Delhi High Court has decided to hear the personality rights suits filed by actors Vivek Oberoi, Janhvi Kapoor and Aaradhya Bachchan together, as they raise recurring questions on the scope and limits of personality rights. Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said he would first hear these three matters as a batch and use the legal principles emerging from them to deal with the other pending personality rights suits separately. The court is dealing with a growing number of such suits filed by...

Drishti IAS Founder Vikas Divyakirti Moves Delhi High Court Seeking Protection Of Personality Rights

Vikas Divyakirti of Drishti IAS has moved the Delhi High Court seeking protection of his personality rights, The suit was listed on Thursday before Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav The court directed that the matter be transferred to a coordinate bench already dealing with personality rights disputes, rather than proceeding before it.Divyakirti, the founder of Drishti IAS, a UPSC coaching institute, filed the suit through counsel who told the court that it seeks protection against three...

Actor Rakesh Bedi Moves Delhi High Court Seeking Protection Of Personality Rights

Actor Rakesh Bedi has moved the Delhi High Court seeking protection of his personality rights.The matter was listed before Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani on Wednesday, but upon mentioning, was sent to another bench dealing with Intellectual Property Division (IPD) matters. No further details of Bedi's suit are available at this stage, and the case is expected to be taken up before the appropriate bench in due course.Bedi's move adds to a growing list of personality rights suits before the Delhi...

Delhi High Court Orders Takedown Of Obscene Content In Actor Meenakshi Chaudhary's Personality Rights Suit

The court, however, left claims of commercial exploitation of her personality rights open, saying blanket relief could not be granted without evidence of actual monetisation.

Delhi High Court Protects Rajat Sharma's Personality Rights, Bars Trademark Misuse of INDIA TV

The Delhi High Court has recently permanently restrained several individuals and YouTube channels from infringing journalist Rajat Sharma's personality and publicity rights and INDIA TV's registered trademarks. The decree was passed against the specified parties in terms of the permanent-injunction reliefs sought in paragraphs 100(a) to (e) of the plaint.Justice Jyoti Singh passed the order on August 24, 2026. The court also allowed Sharma and INDIA TV to seek a declaration that the INDIA TV...

'Kala Hiran' Not In Releasable State, Yet to Be Certified: Delhi High Court Records In Salman Khan's Suit

The producer of the proposed film “Kala Hiran: The Battle for Legacy”, stated to be inspired by actor Salman Khan's 1998 blackbuck poaching case, told the Delhi High Court on Thursday (September 10) that the film is not presently in a “releasable state," as its contents are yet to be certified by the Censor Board.The statement came during a suit filed by Khan, whose counsel told the court that it was his consistent case that the film was about him and that its release would cause him “immense...

Bombay High Court Orders Takedown of AI Deepfakes Misusing Actor Shruti Haasan's Personality Rights

The Bombay High Court has ordered the removal of online content identified in actor Shruti Haasan's suit and restrained the unauthorised use of her name, voice, image and likeness through artificial intelligence and other technology.Justice Madhav J. Jamdar granted the relief as an ad-interim measure after observing that the material placed before the court made out “a very strong prima facie case”. The relief will continue until further orders.Haasan approached the court after discovering a...

Delhi High Court Appoints Amicus Curiae In Janhvi Kapoor's Personality Rights Suit

The Delhi High Court has appointed Advocate Gautam Bhatia as an amicus curiae to assist it in the personality rights suit filed by actor Janhvi Kapoor, alongside Advocate Rohan Alva, who was already assisting the court with actor Vivek Oberoi's personality rights.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani made the appointment “considering the importance of the issues involved" in these matters and fixed a date in September.The appointment comes amidst concerns of overbroad prayers made in recent personality...

Personality Rights Cannot Extinguish Parody, Caricature Or Lampooning: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on 5 August held that personality rights cannot be used to extinguish entire genres of expression such as caricature, lampooning or parody, while granting PhysicsWallah founder and physics educator Alakh Pandey interim protection against three specific forms of misuse of his persona. Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani was hearing a commercial suit filed by Pandey against social media accounts, sticker platforms, coupon websites and domain registrars accused of misusing his name,...

Sonu Nigam Namesake Agrees Before Bombay High Court To Stop Using Singer's Name On Social Media

A man who ran a social media account under the name “Sonu Nigam” has agreed before the Bombay High court to stop using the singer's name, photograph, likeness, and other personality attributes in a manner that exploits or misappropriates his personality and publicity rights, bringing a year-long dispute between the two men to an end.Justice Madhav J. Jamdar recorded the settlement on August 13 and decreed the suit in terms of the Consent Terms. Sonu Nigam Singh can continue operating the account...

Delhi High Court Grants Khushi Kapoor Relief Against Unauthorised Merchandise, Obscene Content

The Delhi High Court has indicated it will order the takedown of links carrying obscene and pornographic content and links selling unauthorised merchandise bearing actor Khushi Kapoor's persona. Even as the court left the larger dispute over "fan pages" open for a later hearing, Justice Jyoti Singh confined today's relief to unauthorized merchandise sales and obscene or pornographic content.Kapoor, described in the plea as an actress and fashion icon, moved court against unknown persons,...

Delhi High Court Grants Jahnvi Kapoor Relief Against Obscene Content, Commercial Misuse Of Persona

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to grant a blanket injunction sought by actor Jahnvi Kapoor against 6,884 URLs that she claimed infringed her personality rights.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani indicated that interim relief could be considered for three categories of content. These were content that is ex facie obscene or pornographic, content that directly monetises Kapoor's personality rights, and content using her name and likeness to promote the sale of merchandise or services.Kapoor...