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Your face and papers online

“My face is everywhere.”

How do you get your photos or case papers removed from the internet?

In short. Report it at cybercrime.gov.in, or call 1930. Ask the platform's grievance officer to remove it, and ask a court for an injunction. An injunction is a court order to stop something. The identity of a victim of a sexual offence can never be published.

General information, not advice on your case. Please speak to your own lawyer, or to your District Legal Services Authority, about your case.

Last updated 17 October 2026.

The door, step by step

  1. Report it at cybercrime.gov.in, or call 1930.
  2. Ask the platform's grievance officer to remove it, and ask a court for an injunction. An injunction is a court order to stop something.
  3. The identity of a victim of a sexual offence can never be published.
What backs it up. The Supreme Court has said privacy is a fundamental right, and that the identity of a victim of a sexual offence must never be disclosed.Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) 10 SCC 1. Nipun Saxena v. Union of India (2019) 2 SCC 703. Read the source
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