Amid rising cases of protection of personality rights of Bollywood celebrities, the latest actor to have gotten relief from the court is Shilpa Shetty Kundra. The Bombay High Court passed an order which safeguards the actor's personality rights against misuse.
The court has restrained the defendants from using or misrepresenting Shilpa Shetty Kundra's name, image, voice, likeness or persona in any manner. It has further directed that the defamatory and infringing content circulating on various platforms be immediately pulled down.
Confirming the same, Shilpa's lawyer, Sana Raees Khan tells us, “The Bombay High Court has made it absolutely clear in Ms Shilpa Shetty’s Personality Rights case that the internet cannot become a playground for deepfakes and digital impersonation.
Shilpa joins a long list of Bollywood celebrities who have received relief from the legal system against misuse of their persona online. Some of those names include Kajol, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Abhishek Bachchan, Salman Khan, among others.
