Delhi High Court Agrees To Hear Today Woman's Plea Accusing CJP Activists Of Morphing, Circulating Her Images With PM Modi
The Delhi High Court on Friday allowed urgent listing for today of a plea filed by a woman alleging that Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das, Abhijit Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka and Ratna Singh posted and circulated an alleged deepfake picture of her alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said that the matter be listed today.
The matter was mentioned by Advocate Umesh Sharma who said that an FIR has been registered on the incident.
The plea has been filed by the woman alleging that the CJP leaders ran a vicious, coordinated cyber-assault, public character assassination using deepfake technology.
The woman has alleged that the CJP leaders have unauthorizedly harvested her personal photograph and used AI face-swapping tools to morph her face onto a “highly vulgar and compromising image” alongside the Prime Minister of India.
“The perpetrators printed physical banners of this morphed picture, paraded them in massive crowds, raised sexually suggestive and derogatory slogans, and maliciously uploaded videos onto Instagram and other social media platforms,” the plea says.
It adds: “They further sank to absolute depravity by uploading and distributing the Petitioner's morphed non-consensual explicit Photos onto various pornographic websites.”
It is her case that despite registration of FIR, the local cyber authorities have failed to issue statutory takedown directives, leaving the deepfake content viral across the internet.
She has claimed that the content online is subjecting her to continuous, life-threatening intimidation, rape threats, and severe mental trauma.
The plea seeks directions on the police to provide protection to the woman. She has also sought a direction that the authorities mmediately trace, block, and purge the morphed explicit photos and deepfake content not only from social media but from all pornographic websites, where her image has been illegally uploaded.
Title: X v. State NCT of Delhi & Ors