A court here on Wednesday rejected the anticipatory bail application of an Uttrakhand-based man accused of uploading obscene deepfake videos of actor Amitabh Bachchan on social media. The pre-arrest bail plea of Abhijit Patil, who runs an Ayurveda medicine firm at Rishikesh, was rejected by sessions judge V M Pathade. The detailed order was not available yet.

The accused allegedly created and posted on social media obscene deepfake videos of Bachchan to promote products related to sexual health. After a case was registered here against him, Patil filed an anticipatory bail application. The allegations against him were "baseless, false, and fabricated" and he had not committed any offence, he said.