Overview
- Justice Manmeet P. S. Arora granted an ex parte ad interim injunction on September 17, released September 19, finding a prima facie case and risk of irreparable harm to Karan Johar’s reputation and brand value.
- Platforms were directed to remove URL‑specific disparaging content—videos, memes and posts—on services including Pinterest, Google, Meta and others, with unauthorized accounts using his name liable to be taken down.
- The order restrains commercial exploitation of Johar’s name, acronym “KJo,” image, voice and other persona attributes, expressly prohibiting AI uses such as deepfakes, face‑morphing, GIFs and AI chatbots without consent.
- GoDaddy was told to suspend and lock an AI Voice Swap Generator site and the domain at beta.opedia.ai, while entities including Perfect Privacy LLC, Giphy and Tenor were directed to act on specified takedown requests and domain locks.
- E‑commerce sites such as Teepublic, Redbubble, Etsy and Amazon India were barred from selling merchandise bearing his name or image, and intermediaries were summoned to provide Basic Subscriber Information and IT logs as proceedings continue.