Delhi High Court To Pass Interim Order Protecting Personality Rights Of Actor Mohanlal

The Delhi High Court on Friday said that it will pass interim orders protecting the personality rights of Malayalam actor Mohanlal.

Justice Jyoti Singh allowed the actor's application seeking to implead new defendants as party in the suit seeking protection of personality rights.

This was after the Court had permitted the actor in the previous hearing to withdraw his interim application while granting him liberty to file it afresh with better particulars.

The Court today asked the actor to share the note of infringing links to the defendants.

Recently, the judge had passed a John Doe order protecting the personality rights of actress Sonakshi Sinha and Yoga guru and Patanjali Ayurved founder Ramdev.

For context, coordinate benches have passed orders protecting personality rights of singer Jubin Nautiyal, Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Pawan Kalyan, former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar, and actors Kajol Devgan, 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.

Case Title: - MOHANLAL VISWANATHAN NAIR v. JOHN DOE & ORS