Deepfakes are new.
The charge sheet often is not. Cheating. Defamation. Identity-related offences. Sections written for a world without synthetic faces and cloned voices — stretched onto facts that look like science fiction.
That stretch is the real legal story. Not the AI demo. Not the outrage clip. Whether the old offence fits the new act, and what still has to be proved.
New harm.
Old sections.
The fit is the case.
Educational note. This Insight is for awareness relating to cyber law and digital procedure. It is not legal advice and does not create an advocate–client relationship. Series: Digital disputes, as Indian courts actually see them.