Union Minister Hardeep Puri's Daughter Moves Delhi High Court Against 'Defamatory' Content Linking Her To Jeffery Epstein

Union Minister Hardeep Puri's daughter has moved the Delhi High Court seeking a global take down of allegedly defamatory content and posts linking her to American financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Himayani Puri has filed a Rs. 10 crore defamation suit seeking a john doe order for taking down of the content. As per her, false, malicious, and defamatory statements concerning her have been published by various defendants across multiple digital, social media, and intermediary platforms. She has also sought an unconditional apology from those indulging in the said acts.

As per the suit, a coordinated and malicious online campaign has been orchestrated by the Defendants, purporting to link her to Jeffrey Epstein and his criminal activities.

“Commencing on or around 22.02.2026, a series of false, misleading, and defamatory posts, articles, videos, and digital materials were published, disseminated, and amplified across social media and intermediary platforms, including, inter alia, "X" (formerly Twitter), YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, digital news portals, blogs, and other web-based publications,” the suit states.

It adds that Puri is being targeted in a “coordinated and motivated manner” with the clear intention of maligning and discrediting her, both in India and on a global scale.

She has said that the impugned publications continue to remain live, accessible, and widely circulated across social media, causing sustained reputational damage to her.

The suit states that the defendants have “fabricated and disseminated baseless imputations”, including that she maintained direct or indirect business, financial, personal, or "network" links with Jeffrey Epstein or his criminal activities, that she or a firm where she worked received "funding," "financial benefits," or tainted money from Jeffrey Epstein or his associates and that one Mr. Robert Millard allegedly acted with her to engineer the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

“These allegations are entirely false, malicious, and devoid of any factual foundation. The Defendant Nos. 1 to 14 and several unidentified John Doe(s)/Ashok Kumar(s) have strategically propagated these unfounded allegations through sensationalist and manipulative formats, including edited videos, misleading captions, and doctored thumbnails, designed to maximise public outrage, digital virality, and consequent reputational harm to the Plaintiff,” the suit states. 

The suit has been filed through Advocates Shantanu Agarwal, Manas Arora and Syed Hamza Ghayour.