The story so far: The High Court of Delhi issued a notice on January 21, 2026, to actor Salman Khan on an application filed by a China-based AI voice generation platform seeking to vacate an interim injunction protecting the actor’s personality rights. While the main matter was heard on January 23 by the Joint Registrar (Judicial), the Chinese app’s application is listed for February 27.
The original suit named 28 defendants, including major technology companies such as Apple Inc., Google LLC, Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, X, e-commerce platforms including Amazon India and Flipkart, and intermediaries like Telegram FZ LLC. Mr. Khan also sought an injunction against unknown persons, joined as Defendant No. 1 (’John Doe’ or ‘Ashok Kumar’), a procedural device that allows courts to pass ex-parte orders where defendants cannot be identified.
