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The woman petitioner, employed in a small local hotel, performed physically strenuous tasks in conditions lacking adequate hygiene and dignity, hardships she contended bore particular severity during menstruation.

MeitY’s latest proposal on AI-generated content appears to be a straightforward tightening of disclosure norms. The language “ensure that users are informed when content is artificially generated” suggests a familiar regulatory instinct. However, a closer reading reveals something far more structural. This is not merely about telling users that content is AI-generated. It is about ensuring that such disclosure is inseparable from the content itself. In doing so, MeitY is not just prescribing what platforms must say rather it is beginning to influence how platforms must be build.

In April 2020, amid the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indian government introduced Press Note 3 (“PN3”) through the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (“DPIIT”). The policy was a considered response to a specific and legitimate concern: that investors from land-border countries, China in particular, might exploit the economic distress of the pandemic to acquire stakes in Indian companies at depressed valuations. India was not alone in this assessment. Australia, France, Canada introduced comparable investment screening measures around the same time.