Delhi High Court Protects Personality Rights Of Actress Kajol; Restrains Sale Of Commercial Merchandise, Obscene Material

The Delhi High Court on Friday passed an interim order protecting the personality rights of Bollywood actress Kajol Devgan.

Justice Jyoti Singh restrained various defendant entities from using the actress' image and likeness while selling commercial merchandise as well as ordered takedown of obscene material. 

The Court said that it will also pass an order restraining misuse of Kajol's personality traits including her name, image etc. through artificial intelligence or deepfake.

It further directed removal of pornographic and obscene content published by various defendants against the actress.

Advocate Pravin Anand appeared for Kajol Devgan.

For context, coordinate benches have passed orders protecting personality rights of Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Pawan Kalyan, former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar, and actors R Madhavan and NTR Junior. Similar suit has been filed by actor Salman Khan.

The coordinate benches have also passed orders protecting the personality rights of “The Art of Living” foundation founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Telugu actor Nagarjuna, Bollywood actors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and film producer Karan Johar.

Notably, the Court also recently protected the personality rights of journalist Sudhir Chaudhary, who had sought relief regarding the circulation of allegedly misleading and AI-generated videos against him on social media.

The Court also passed a john doe order protecting the personality rights of podcaster Raj Shamani, observing that he is a known face in India, especially in the field of content creation.

Title: KAJOL VISHAL DEVGAN v. KASH COLLECTIVE