The Delhi Excessive Courtroom on Wednesday directed takedown of obscene and pornographic content material posted on social media towards Bollywood actress Khushi Kapoor.
Justice Jyoti Singh additionally ordered removing of impugned content material regarding unauthorized sale of merchandise utilizing her character parts or industrial exploitation of her character.
The Courtroom stated that it is going to be passing a john doe order in favour of the actress in her interim injunction software filed within the swimsuit searching for safety of her character rights.
IndiaLaw LLP by way of its companions Asav Rajan and Abha Shah represented Kapoor.
Yesterday, an analogous takedown order was handed by a coordinate bench in favour of Kapoor’s sister, actress Janhvi Kapoor.
It might be famous that the Courtroom has been defending the character rights of actress Tabu, cricketers Abhishek Sharma and Yuvraj Singh, political figures like Congress chief Shashi Tharoor and Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Pawan Kalyan.
It has additionally protected rights of entrepreneur Aman Gupta, Telugu actor Allu Arjun, Malayalam actor Mohanlal, non secular preacher Aniruddhacharya, singer Jubin Nautiyal, former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar, and actors Kajol Devgan, R Madhavan and NTR Junior. Comparable swimsuit has been filed by actor Salman Khan.
The coordinate benches have additionally handed orders defending the character rights of “The Artwork of Residing” basis founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Telugu actor Nagarjuna, Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and movie producer Karan Johar.
Notably, the Courtroom additionally protected the character rights of journalist Sudhir Chaudhary, who had sought aid concerning the circulation of allegedly deceptive and AI-generated movies towards him on social media.
The Courtroom additionally handed a john doe order defending the character rights of podcaster Raj Shamani, observing that he’s a identified face in India, particularly within the subject of content material creation.
Title: Khushi Kapoor v. Ashok Kumar/John Does & Ors
