India’s Laws Were Not Built for AI — And Courts Are Filling the Gap
Chandrakant Kushwaha
India’s Digital Future Is Moving Faster Than Its Laws Artificial Intelligence can now generate art, clone voices, imitate personalities, and create highly convincing deepfakes within seconds. Yet, many of these emerging issues are still being governed through legal interpretation of statutes enacted long before the AI era. India currently has: no dedicated AI legislation, no standalone deepfake regulation, no codified personality rights statute, and limited statutory guidance on synthetic digita