Delhi: a 25-year-old content creator says her photograph was morphed with AI face-swapping tools onto a vulgar image beside the Prime Minister, printed on banners paraded at a Cockroach Janta Party protest at Jantar Mantar and circulated online; FIR registered 24 September 2026, Delhi High Court orders Meta takedown within 24 hours and police protection on 25 September

According to the FIR quoted by the Hindustan Times (24 September 2026), the complainant, a 25-year-old content creator from Delhi, alleged that during the recent CJP protests at Jantar Mantar 'certain delinquent demonstrators and organisers unauthorisedly harvested my personal photograph' and, 'using digital manipulation and AI face-swapping tools, they morphed my face directly onto an image alongside the Hon'ble Prime Minister', fabricating 'a completely false, compromising, and sensationalized picture'. She said the CJP 'publicly displayed, waved, and paraded these banners before huge crowds at Jantar Mantar, raising derogatory slogans and making vulgar, sexually suggestive comments against me in full public view', recorded close-up videos of the posters and published them on social media. She named the party's founder and three other functionaries in her complaint; the FIR at the New Delhi cyber police station was nonetheless registered against unknown persons under the BNS and the IT Act, and a police officer told the Hindustan Times she had submitted photos and videos as evidence, and PTI reported the case was being probed 'from all angles, including the creation, printing, public display and online circulation' of the image. She told police she had no connection with the CJP or its protest and described 'absolute distress, fear, and trauma'. On 25 September the Delhi High Court, after a Division Bench allowed urgent listing, heard her criminal writ petition before Justice Girish Kathpalia. The petition (LiveLaw, Bar and Bench, PTI) repeats the face-swapping allegation, says banners of the morphed picture were 'paraded in massive crowds' with 'sexually suggestive and derogatory slogans', that videos were uploaded to Instagram and other platforms, that her 'morphed non-consensual explicit photos' were uploaded to 'various pornographic websites', and that she has since received messages threatening rape, gang rape, acid attacks and death, forcing her to remain confined at home; the petition says the incident took place in July during a CJP protest and that she approached the police on 23 September after facing severe online harassment (Ommcom News; AajTak also gives July). Her counsel argued that despite the FIR nothing had been done to take the content down. The judge said the takedown relief would ordinarily go to a civil bench but that the sensitivity of the matter meant the petitioner should not be made 'to run from one place to another', and remarked that the case was 'not just a matter of the lady but also about the Prime Minister of the country'. The order directs Meta Platforms to remove the objectionable content within 24 hours, directs the petitioner to disclose her residential address to the investigating officer so the local station house officer can ensure her protection, issues notice to the four functionaries and Meta, requires a police status report within a week, orders the registry to redact the impugned web links (PTI reports her name as well; LiveLaw notes the court's copy already had her name redacted), and, per PTI and Ommcom News, lists the matter for 14 October 2026. The Additional Standing Counsel for Delhi Police told the court the FIR had been registered the previous day and action would be taken as expeditiously as possible. The CJP had not commented at the time of the Hindustan Times report.

The complainant reports that an AI-morphed vulgar image of her was paraded on banners before crowds with sexually suggestive slogans, circulated on Instagram and pornographic websites, and followed by threats of rape, acid attack and death that confined her to her home; she describes absolute distress, fear and trauma (her FIR as quoted by the Hindustan Times; her petition as reported by LiveLaw, Bar and Bench and PTI). The High Court found sufficient urgency to order a takedown and police protection; the allegations remain under investigation.

FIR registered against unknown persons at the Cyber Police Station, New Delhi district, on 24 September 2026 under the BNS and the IT Act (Hindustan Times, PTI, The Tribune). Delhi High Court order of 25 September 2026 (Justice Girish Kathpalia): Meta Platforms to remove the objectionable content within 24 hours; Delhi Police to provide complete protection and file a status report within one week; notice issued to the four CJP functionaries named in the plea and to Meta; registry to redact the impugned web links (LiveLaw, Ommcom; PTI adds her name); petitioner to hand the images, videos and links to the investigating agency in electronic form; the court observed that she retains a right to seek compensation from the demonstration's organisers; next hearing 14 October 2026 (PTI via The New Indian Express, Ommcom News; the order's operative parts per LiveLaw and Bar and Bench). No accused named or arrested as of 25 September.