{"id":1024181,"date":"2026-07-28T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T04:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024181"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:00:55","slug":"bombay-hc-permits-gadkari-to-sue-meta-x-and-others-over-defamatory-deepfakes-ai-generated-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/28\/bombay-hc-permits-gadkari-to-sue-meta-x-and-others-over-defamatory-deepfakes-ai-generated-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombay HC permits Gadkari to sue Meta, X and others over &#8216;defamatory&#8217; deepfakes, AI generated posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court on Monday permitted Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to file a civil suit against Meta Platforms, X Corp, Google LLC and other unknown persons over &#8220;defamatory&#8221; deepfakes and AI-generated posts uploaded against him. <\/p>\n<p>The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and senior BJP leader had filed a leave petition under Clause XII of Letters Patent, a procedural requirement wherein permission of the court is sought before filing of a suit, when part of the cause of action arises outside the territorial jurisdiction of the high court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court on Monday permitted Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to file a civil suit against Meta Platforms, X Corp, Google LLC and other unknown persons over &#8220;defamatory&#8221; deepfakes and AI-generated posts uploaded against him. The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and senior BJP leader had filed a leave petition under Clause XII of Letters Patent, a procedural requirement wherein permission of the court is sought before filing of a suit, when part of the cause of action arises outside the territorial jurisdiction of the high court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024218,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024181\/revisions\/1024218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}