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Indians fight for the ‘right to be forgotten online’

The petitions pit privacy rights against freedom of speech and the public interest [File: Kacper Pempel/Reuters]

It is more than a decade since Indian actor and reality television star Ashutosh Kaushik was arrested for drunk driving. Now, he is fighting for the right to put the incident behind him for good.

Kaushik filed a petition in the Delhi high court last year, seeking the removal of about 20 online news reports and video clips of the arrest and other “minor” incidents, highlighting a wider push in India for the legal right to be forgotten online.

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