India, May 5 -- The Delhi High Court has protected the personality rights of actor Arjun Kapoor and restrained the unauthorised use of his name, voice, image and other attributes by third parties for impersonation, sale of merchandise, creating deep fake images and obscene content.

In an interim order passed on April 29, Justice Tushar Rao Gedela directed the removal of the infringing content, saying Kapoor has created an exclusive place for himself in the film world, and his name, voice, image, likeness, photograph, unique persona and signature were liable to be protected from any exploitation.

The court observed that an "overwhelming number of screenshots" in the actor's lawsuit revealed a prima facie infringement of his personality/p...