India, May 9 -- The Delhi High Court (HC) on Wednesday (May 8) reportedly sought responses from the Centre on a public interest litigation (PIL) that seeks directions to block public access to apps and softwares that help create deepfakes.

As per news agency PTI, a bench comprising acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet PS Arora issued a notice to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on a PIL filed by journalist and INDIA TV head Rajat Sharma.

Observing that deepfakes were a major problem, the bench asked the Centre to furnish a reply on whether the latter was willing to act on the matter. The Delhi HC also said that the union government was not taking any action on the issue despite political partie...