Actor Shilpa Shetty moves HC seeking protection of her 'personality rights'
Mumbai (PTI): Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court seeking an injunction against unauthorised use of her name, image and other personality traits, mainly by web portals.
Her "personality and publicity rights" including the name, image, voice and signature have been misused for commercial exploitation without her permission, said the plea filed through advocate Sana Raees Khan.
The petition, which will come up for hearing in due course, also named online portals indulging in such transgressions.
"The misuse of the actor's image and identity has reached a point where legal intervention became imperative," advocate Khan said, adding that no platform has the right to weaponise her identity for clandestine commercial gain.
The actor has sought a direction from the HC restraining such use of her personality traits.
In the past, the Bombay and Delhi High Courts have granted similar reliefs to several actors.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
