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Chandigarh Court Blocks Three Facebook Pages Over AI Videos of Congress Politician
A Chandigarh court has ordered three Facebook pages to stop circulating AI-generated content involving Punjab Congress politician Amandeep Kumar. The October 5 interim order also directs that the pages be suspended or made inaccessible unti
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“may adversely affect the health of our democracy and a process of manufacturing of public consent”
Chandigarh court, quoted by Bar and Bench
A Chandigarh civil court has barred three Facebook pages from circulating AI-generated content involving Punjab Congress politician Amandeep Kumar, also known as Amandeep Jaintipura. Civil Judge (Junior Division) Kuldeep Singh issued the ex parte interim order on October 5 in a defamation suit brought by Kumar. The court also directed that the pages be suspended or made inaccessible until the next hearing, scheduled for October 22.
Three pages named in the interim order
The order applies to Thanedar Uncle, Kachi Laan and Batale Di Rajneeti. It directs those who uploaded the material not to disseminate, publish or upload AI-generated content involving Kumar until the next hearing. Facebook was directed to disable public access to, or suspend, the three pages in the meantime.
The court’s intervention is temporary: it is an interim injunction, not a final ruling on the defamation claim. The order followed Kumar’s suit against the page operators. The report does not say that the court has determined who created or operated the pages.
Videos portrayed Kumar in fabricated situations
Kumar told the court that the pages used AI to manipulate his face and appearance in videos showing him in situations in which he had not participated or consented to appear. The alleged depictions included portraying him as a drug dealer and an anti-social element, as well as showing him dancing with a woman. One video, the court recorded, depicted an AI-generated version of Kumar as a middleman for settling rape cases.
The reported order says one of the videos suggested that Kumar proposed approaching Congress leader Partap Bajwa to settle such cases; Aam Aadmi Party MLA Aman Sher Singh, known as Sherry Kalsi, was referred to positively in the content. Those descriptions concern material submitted to the court, not findings that the depicted events took place. Kumar alleged the videos were intended to ridicule and damage his public image.
View counts and political allegations
Kumar said three videos had received about 178,000, 180,000 and 47,800 views. He also alleged that the pages carried content favourable to Kalsi, Batala’s sitting AAP MLA. His lawyers argued that Kumar was a frontrunner for the Congress ticket in Batala in the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections.
The court examined a pen drive containing the videos and independently checked one link using the mobile phone of its judgment writer, according to the report. After reviewing the material, it found on a preliminary basis that the pages appeared to have a political agenda extending beyond healthy public criticism. That assessment supports the interim relief; the suit itself remains unresolved.
The court draws a line at fabricated depictions
The order addresses both the distribution of AI-generated material involving Kumar and access to the three identified pages while the case proceeds. Its reach is limited to this dispute and the period before the next hearing. It does not, on the account available, establish a general restriction on political criticism or on AI-generated content about public figures.
The next hearing is set for October 22. Until then, the order restrains further publication of AI-generated content involving Kumar and directs that public access to the named Facebook pages be disabled or the pages suspended.