Supreme Court Asks Centre To Consider Plea Against Illegal AI-Generated Content
Supreme Court hears PIL asking Union of India to consider a representation seeking mechanism for urgent reporting and URL-specific disabling of access of AI generated unauthorised content.
The Supreme Court has directed the Union of India to consider a representation by Advocate NK Goswami seeking a mechanism for urgent reporting and URL-specific disabling of access in India to content including threats of physical violence, doxing, unauthorized disclosure of private details and non-consensual AI-generated content.
A bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana took up a PIL filed by Advocate Narendra Kumar Goswami, who raised issues, including the harms of unauthorized online content, deepfakes and online threats.
Court has accordingly asked Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Law and Justice to look into the representation and take remedial measures.
The PIL sought a direction to the government authorities to consider a representation which sought a constitutionally compliant mechanism for urgent reporting, preservation, legal/judicial review and URLspecific disabling of access within India of cases involving specific threats of physical violence, sexual violence or death; doxing creating reasonable apprehension of harm; unauthorized disclosure of private details, photographs, school details, location data or identity markers of minor children; non-consensual intimate, morphed, synthetic or AI-generated content; non-consensual deepfake or digitally manipulated impersonation causing and immediate grave harm to safety, dignity, livelihood or reputation.
As an interim measure, the PIL sought that aggrieved persons be allowed to approach the jurisdictional court, High Court or any other designated duty Court for URL-specific relief. Goswami also sought reliefs qua preservation of any content complained about.
A clarification that the proposed directions will not authorize prior restraint or emergency takedown of political speeches, journalistic work, satire, fair criticism, etc was also sought.
Case Title: NARENDRA KUMAR GOSWAMI Versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS
Bench: CJI Kant, Justice Bagchi and Justice Mohana
Hearing Date: August 11, 2026