India, Nov. 26 -- Personality protection by public figures is on the rise. Apart from financial losses, there's always the risk of their reputation being at stake too. And taking cognizance of it, it's actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra who has taken the same step.

HT City has exclusively learnt that the actor, who has enjoyed a long career in India, apart from winning the international show Big Brother in 2007, has filed a suit in the Bombay High Court, asking for her personality protection rights. The suit, we learn, has named several websites, which used her pictures illegally for promoting different things. Not just this, even her morphed pictures and videos have come under the scanner. The known defendants are 27 and unknown defendants are ...