Updated On: 21 April, 2023 07:42 AM IST | Mumbai | The Hitlist Team
Delhi High Court grants an injunction to protect Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan`s daughter, Aaradhya, from fake news about her health and death. Abhishek, a father and celebrity actor, filed the case to safeguard his daughter`s privacy

Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Bachchan and Aaradhya Bachchan

Ameet Naik
In a first of its kind, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s daughter Aaradhya has been granted injunction by the Delhi High Court against several channels and uploaders from posting any fake news about her death and critical illness. Abhishek had filed the case as a father and also as an individual celebrity actor. His legal team fought the case on three counts — breach of privacy, defamation, and infringement of personal rights. The Delhi HC also directed Google and YouTube to give details of the infringers such as contact number, email ID etc. Calling it a landmark judgment, Naik said, “Children must be treated with parity, whether celebrity child or otherwise. The court has said that the intermediaries should have a zero-tolerance policy on such fake news which is harmful to a child, same as that for child pornography.”