Claiming the ‘right to be forgotten’ reality show celebrity Ashutosh Kaushik on Thursday sought a direction from the Delhi High Court to the Center and Google to remove some of his videos, photos and articles from various online platforms as they have “harmful influence”. Is. “On his life. Justice Rekha Palli issued a notice and asked the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Google LLC, the Press Council of India and the Center for Electronic Media Monitoring to respond to the plea that the petitioners ‘right to privacy and Right to be forgotten.’ Photos, videos and articles relating to his detention in 2009 for the alleged offense of drunken driving.
Ashutosh, who won MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0 in 2007 and the second season of Bigg Boss in 2008, has now opened up about his decision to move court. “I contacted several news websites and channels, requesting them to remove the content (videos of past events)… Some news channels removed that content, while some refused, and finally, I had The only option was to take it legally.” He told the Times.
He continued, “I did something wrong in my past, I paid the price for it, I was punished for it, but personally, it is affecting me so far. Anyone who sees those videos will believe it. That I am still doing those kind of things (fights). My mother would feel worse than me. She would ask me, ‘Yeh kya hai Ashu? (What is this Ashu?)’ because of this I share my family’s pain. Couldn’t bear it and so I decided to go to court. Ho gayi mujhe galti, maang li mafi, saaza bhi mil gaya, aur kab tak mujhe sajaa milegi (I made a mistake, I apologized, paid a price for But as long as I will be punished for the same thing). It was for my mother that I decided to go to court.”
Meanwhile, advocate Amit George, representing Kaushik, submitted in the court that whenever the name of his client is searched on the internet, pictures related to his past life keep showing up on various search engines including Google and such All posts were requested to be removed. , related videos and photos. Senior advocate Arvind Nigam, representing Google, said the right to be forgotten is not a law in the country as of now.
The petition said that Kaushik’s invaluable contribution to the television and big screen industry has earned him the admiration, love and appreciation of people across India. “However, despite achieving outstanding success in the silver screen industry, the petitioner under deep anguish had to endure immense psychological pain for his small acts, which were committed a decade ago by mistake as the recorded videos, photographs, The articles are available on the same.The petition filed through advocates Akshat Bajpayee, Ishani Sharma and Shreya Gupta states that various search engines/online platforms.
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