So yet, no one has been detained or arrested on suspicion.

Rashmika Mandanna

The Delhi Police is attempting to locate the URL that was used to publish a deepfake video of actress Rashmika Mandanna on Meta and other social media platforms.

Inquiries into those who posted the footage on social media have also been made by the investigators.

‘In order to get the URL ID of the account that created the video, we have written to Meta. Additionally, we have begun doing technical analysis,’ a statement from the Deputy Commissioner of Police said.

Therefore, no one has been taken into custody or arrested.

On Friday, the municipal police had submitted a First Information Report (FIR) on the matter.

At the IFSO unit of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell, a FIR was filed under sections 465 (forgery) and 469 (forgery with the intent to do damage to reputation) of the Indian Penal Code as well as sections 66C and 66E of the Information Technology Act.

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), which took suo-moto cognizance of the deepfake video controversy, filed a complaint, which served as the basis for the Delhi Police operation.

Deepfakes are created primarily to spread false information. They include employing artificial intelligence or other similar technologies to replace a person’s appearance in an already-existing picture or video with someone else’s.

Reports claim that Mandanna’s face was substituted with the face of a British-Indian star in the contentious video.

The actress responded to the film that went popular on social media by saying, ‘I have to speak about the deepfake video of me being distributed online because I feel so upset to share it. Since technology is being overused these days, not only am I terrified of anything like this, but I think this is terrifying for all of us as well.