Bollywood Actor Hritik Roshan Moves Delhi High Court Seeking Protection Of His Personality Rights, Hearing Tomorrow

The matter will be heard on Wednesday by Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora.

Apart from named defendants, the suit has also been filed against john does- unknown individuals.

The actor has sought protection of his personality or publicity rights, including his name, voice, image,likeness and various other attributes.

Roshan has alleged unauthorised use of his personality rights by third-parties for monetary gain.

Justice Arora is also slated to hear tomorrow a similar suit filed by singer Kumar Sanu. Earlier, the Court had asked Meta and Google to inform as to why URLs bearing "morphed videos" and containing "profane language" against Sanu cannot be taken down by the Grievance Officers of the two social media intermediaries.

Last week, Justice Arora protected the personality rights of journalist Sudhir Chaudhary, who had sought relief regarding circulation of allegedly misleading and AI generated videos against him on social media.

Recently, coordinate benches have 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.

Title: HRITHIK ROSHAN v. ASHOK KUMAR & ORS