Four held in Rashmika Mandanna deep fake video case
This legal action was prompted by a complaint from the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW)
Updated: Dec 21st, 2023
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After actor Rashmika Mandanna’s deep fake video surfaced last month, the Delhi Police tracked down four suspects who were involved in uploading the video on social media on Dec 20.
However, the pursuit by Delhi police to apprehend the mastermind behind the creation of deep fake profiles featuring actor Rashmika Mandanna is still going on. Despite tracking down four suspects, it has been revealed that they were merely uploaders and not the actual creators of the morphed videos.
The video depicted a different woman in a black outfit entering an elevator. The alleged perpetrator purportedly employed AI editing techniques to superimpose Mandanna’s face onto the original woman’s face in the video.
“Police had asked Meta to disclose the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the Instagram account responsible for sharing the aforementioned ‘deep fake’ video on social media in November; however, few queries were answered,” said a source to the news agency.
The FIR in the case is registered under sections 465 (forgery) and 469 (forgery for the purpose of harming reputation) of the Indian Penal Code. It also invokes sections 66C and 66E of the Information Technology Act.
This legal action was prompted by a complaint from the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), which took suo-moto cognizance of the ‘deep fake’ video involving the Indian actress.
“After our notice, Delhi police have registered an FIR in the @IAmRashmika fake video case. The accused will be arrested soon,” DCW chief Swati Maliwal had written on X.
Earlier on Nov 7, the IT ministry issued an advisory to social media platforms after the controversy erupted over a morphed video of actor Rashmika Mandanna that went viral on the social media.
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