How fast must synthetic content be taken down in India?

It depends on what started the clock. Three hours from a court order or a reasoned government notice; two hours from a user report of intimate or impersonation content; thirty-six hours for the specified harmful categories. Planisphere records the notice when…

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Answer.

Named jurisdictional law · India IT Rules (SGI).

It depends on what started the clock. Three hours from a court order or a reasoned government notice; two hours from a user report of intimate or impersonation content; thirty-six hours for the specified harmful categories. Planisphere records the notice when it arrives and the removal when it is reported, and seals the elapsed interval against the window that class carries. Where the class is not recognised it reports the interval and no verdict — across an eighteen-fold spread, a guessed window is a manufactured finding. None of it is observation of the removal, and none of it is a safe-harbour determination.

Cite-anchor: Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026 · Synthetically generated information — labelling, provenance, declaration and takedown

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The mark behind the answer.

India IT Rules (SGI) is enacted (or near-enacted) law in a specific jurisdiction, with a specific obligation and a speci…

synthetically generated information — labelling, provenance, rapid takedown (in force 2026-02-20).

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More on India IT Rules (SGI).

Other questions this mark answers.

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Start with the free sandbox. Planisphere measures model behaviour and emits a reproducible, sha-pinned record — it does not certify, file, or give legal advice.

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When India IT Rules (SGI) asks for proof, hand over records — not assurances.

record the duty · seal the receipt · verify offline

Planisphere records each duty event — an output marked, a disclosure shown, a review made — and seals it into a receipt that verifies offline against our published keys. You send hashes, never content. A record is evidence a third party can check; it is not a certification and not a legal determination.

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