No messing with our daughter

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.”