Preity Zinta gets HC nod to pursue action against alleged AI-misuse, deepfake content

2 min readMumbaiJun 17, 2026 09:00 PM IST

Bombay HC allows Preity Zinta to sue Google, Meta over deepfakes.

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed Bollywood actor Preity Zinta to file a suit against Google LLC and other entities, including social media platforms and websites, for breach of her personality rights, copyrights and erosion of goodwill through Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated deepfake videos and other manipulated digital content.

As several respondents-platforms are based outside Mumbai and the alleged online activities were within and beyond Mumbai, she sought leave to file her suit before the Bombay HC.

Preity Zinta has become the latest celebrity to approach the Bombay HC seeking similar relief related to personality rights. In the past two years, the Bombay HC had granted relief to actors Kartik Aryan, Shatrughan Sinha, Shilpa Shetty, Akshay Kumar and Suneil Shetty, along with late veteran singer Asha Bhosale and singer Arijit Singh.

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Advocate Rohan Kadam for Zinta on June 16 argued before a single-judge bench of Justice Abhay Ahuja that the defendants, including Meta Platforms and other websites created, uploaded and disseminated deepfake videos, memes, manipulated images, AI-generated chatbot personas and other digital content, making them available to the general public on various platforms, thereby infringing her rights.

The actor claimed these acts affect her goodwill, reputation and persona and also amount to a violation of her moral rights under the Copyright Act. Kadam stated that although the offending content was disseminated worldwide through digital platforms.

Preity Zinta, being an Indian citizen primarily residing and working in Mumbai, sought permission to file a substantive civil suit before the Bombay HC, which the court allowed.