Delhi High Court Says No to Blanket Injunctions in Personality Rights Cases
On 18 September 2026, the Delhi High Court handed down an order that IP and media law practitioners across India have been discussing all week. In a suit filed by actor Meenakshi Chaudhary against unidentified defendants over non-consensual, sexually explicit AI-generated content bearing her likeness, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani granted an ex-parte ad-interim injunction directing takedown of the obscene material — but pointedly declined to grant the sweeping, "blanket" injunction her counsel had sought over all unauthorised uses of her image and persona. The order was reportedly passed alongside similar personality rights suits filed by other film actors, with the Court signalling an intent to lay down a more structured framework for how such claims should be evaluated going forward....
