‘Article 19 right can't be taken away’: Delhi HC reserves order in Raghav Chadha's personality rights case

Key points

• The Delhi High Court on Thursday reserved its decision on the interim relief requested by Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha in a lawsuit alleging misuse of his personality rights through AI-generated deepfakes, altered visuals, and manipulated social media posts, ANI reported.
• The case was heard by Justice Subramonium Prasad, who orally remarked that the material presented before the Court appeared, at first glance, to be a criticism of a political decision rather than a clear violation of personality rights, ANI reported.
• Here's what the Bench noted The Bench further noted that political leaders have historically been subjected to satire, cartoons and criticism in public life.
• "From independence, we are seeing RK Laxman cartoons.
• At that point in time, probably social media had not gone to that extent;