New Delhi, Oct. 7 -- Actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut has approached the Delhi High Court seeking protection of her personality and publicity rights against alleged unauthorised use of her name, image, likeness and other attributes of her persona.

Justice Vikas Mahajan is scheduled to hear the matter on Thursday.

Ranaut, who has acted in several Hindi films and is currently a Member of Parliament, has sought the court's intervention to restrain the alleged unauthorised commercial exploitation of her identity and persona.

Personality rights broadly protect an individual's name, image, voice, likeness, signature and other distinctive attributes from unauthorised commercial exploitation. Indian courts have increasingly recognised such righ...