{"id":8819,"date":"2026-08-05T07:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=8819"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:18:09","slug":"vile-abusive-bombay-hc-orders-takedown-of-fake-posts-targeting-gadkari-over-e20-ethanol-row-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=8819","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Vile, abusive\u2019: Bombay HC orders takedown of fake posts targeting Gadkari over E20 ethanol row | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Bombay High Court directed social media platforms to remove allegedly defamatory deepfakes linking Nitin Gadkari and family to E20.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday granted interim relief to Union minister Nitin Gadkari<\/a>, directing social media intermediaries, including Meta, to take down defamatory deepfakes, AI-generated images and other posts linking him and his family to the government’s E20 ethanol-blending programme. The court described the flagged material as \u201cvile and abusive\u201d.Granting interim relief, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed intermediaries, including Meta, to take down deepfakes, AI-generated images and other posts falsely linking Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and his family to the E20 fuel controversy, describing the content as “vile and abusive.”The order was passed by Justice Arif Doctor on Wednesday in Gadkari’s suit against Meta Platforms, X, Google\/YouTube, the Union ministry of electronics and information technology, the department of telecommunications and unidentified users.The court observed that the material cited by Gadkari was \u201cabsolutely vile\u201d and abusive, and said such content should not be available on public platforms accessible to young people.“One such transcript appears on instagram reel. There are other content. The material which plaintiff seeks to pull down, I can only say that the same is absolutely vile abusive. Such material should have no place on public platform, which is accessible to everyone including young,” the court said in its interim order, as reported by Bar & Bench.The court said Gadkari had made out a case for ad interim relief. Meta and Google, which appeared before the court, agreed to remove the material identified in Exhibit C of the plaint. \u201cTheir statement is accepted,\u201d the court said.The case concerns posts, reels and videos that Gadkari alleged contained manipulated images and videos, including AI-generated \u201cdefamatory content\u201d and \u201cdeep fake content\u201d. The material allegedly attributed personal responsibility to the Union minister for the E20 programme and suggested that he and his family had derived \u201cundue pecuniary benefits\u201d from ethanol blending.According to the plea, some posts referred to Gadkari’s son, Nikhil Gadkari, and his association with CIAN Agro Industries & Infrastructure Limited, which is involved in manufacturing ethanol and other products. The allegations sought to link that association to purported financial benefits from the E20 programme.<\/p>\n

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