Roadies winner Ashutosh asks HC to remove online photos, videos under ‘Right to be forgotten’

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.’

The court asked the authorities to file a reply within four weeks and listed the matter for further hearing in December. Kaushik, who won MTV Hero Honda Roadies 5.0 in 2007 and the second season of Bigg Boss in 2008, asked the Center to take immediate steps to protect his reputation and dignity by removing his videos, photos and other related articles from various online demanded. The platforms being facilitated by Google are having a detrimental effect on their lives and personal liberty.

The petition states that Right to Be Forgotten refers to the claim of ‘deleting certain data of a person so that third persons can no longer trace them and it enables a person to silence past events of his life which Not happening now. Thus, ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ gives individuals the right to remove information, videos or photos about themselves from certain Internet records so that search engines cannot find them.

The petition states that although the Constitution of India does not explicitly recognize the right to be forgotten, the Supreme Court has held that the right to life includes individual liberty and, thus, the right to privacy is omitted from Article 21. Has been given. In sync with the right to privacy, which was accepted by the Supreme Court as an integral part of Article 21 (right to life) of the Constitution, it said.

Advocate Amit George, representing Kaushik, submitted that whenever his name is searched on the internet, pictures related to his past life keep showing up on various search engines including Google and all such posts, videos and photos are removed from the court. requested to remove. Him. 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.

The petition has sought directions to the authorities to take effective and time bound action to remove all the posts, videos, articles written in the name of Kaushik, which are irrelevant at present and causing serious injury to his dignity and reputation. Huh. He sought to take advantage of the ‘right to be forgotten’ to protect his life, liberty, dignity and prestige.

Photos, videos and articles relating to his detention in 2009 for the alleged offense of drunken driving.

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