Delhi HC orders takedown of AI-generated videos targeting CM Rekha Gupta

The Delhi High Court on Friday (November 6, 2026) directed the removal of several social media posts and videos by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) allegedly depicting Chief Minister Rekha Gupta in a defamatory and demeaning manner through AI-generated images and deepfake videos. Justice Manoj Jain observed that the “offensive portrayal of the Chief Minister, with the assistance of AI-generated videos, hurting her very dignity can be, by no stretch of imagination, said to be in the realm of permissible political satire”.

The order was passed in a defamation suit filed by Ms. Gupta against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), seeking a to restrain them from publishing, circulating or disseminating allegedly defamatory AI-generated content.

According to the plea, several AI-generated videos, images and posters published through AAP’s official and verified social media accounts portrayed Ms. Gupta as a liquor vendor, hawker and delivery agent, besides depicting her as the head of a fictitious ‘Har Har Rekha or Ghar Ghar Theka Yojana’.