New Delhi, October 1 (IANS) Delhi High Court has given an advertisement-inter-prohibition in favor of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the spiritual leader and founder of art, which prevents unknown institutions through deep -fec and AI devices through unauthorized use of its name, image, equality, voice and other personality characteristics.
Hearing a suit filed by Ravi Shankar, a single-judge bench of Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, hearing a suit filed by Ravi Shankar, observed that the circulation of videos depicting the plaintiff as an alleged Ayurvedic or natural remedies depicting the Vidhi, which shows natural diseases for serious diseases for diabetes, hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids, hemoroids and chronic pens.
The Delhi High Court said that Ravi Shankar is widely recognized as “Gurudev” and “Sri Sri”, an established reputation as a human leader and ambassador of peace, whose personality holds great goodwill and commercial values. The legal team of the plaintiff argued that deepfac videos not only cheat the public, but also destroy trust and cause irreparable damage to their dignity and reputation.
When issuing the interim order, the Delhi High Court noticed, “it is clear that John Do (Unknown Party) is unauthorizedly transmitted to deep fake content using name, voice, facial expressions, personality and equality of the plaintiff.
“The balance of convenience is also in favor of the plaintiff, and the plaintiff will suffer irreparable disadvantages, if John Does are not restrained to publish/broadcast deepfec content,” it said.
Justice Arora prevented John Does and all affiliated persons from misusing the personality characteristics of the plaintiff, including his name, voice, image, equality and methods of discourse, in any form, as well as AI-Janit or deep content.
The social media platform Facebook was ordered to remove/disable access within 36 hours to the URLs and accounts specified in the suit, and the same violation material was complied with by the plaintiff to the future Tekdown requests.
In addition, the domain name Registrar was directed to lock and suspend the domain specified within 72 hours and the Registrar Details and IP address were revealed in compliance affidavits.
The Delhi High Court also asked the Ministry of Electronics and the IT and Telecom Department to issue the necessary information to block the websites violating. The case has been listed before the Joint Registrar on 15 October and before the Delhi High Court on 19 February 2026.
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