How to Get Right to Be Forgotten
in Ahmedabad
A legal step-by-step guide for Ahmedabad residents and businesses. India has no statutory Right to Be Forgotten in force yet, but High Courts have granted de-indexing relief under Article 21. The right to erasure in Section 12 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 comes into force in May 2027.
Legal process in Ahmedabad.
Identify the content: historical content, outdated information, or acquitted criminal records that continue to harm reputation.
Assess eligibility: Right to Be Forgotten is stronger for acquitted individuals, victims of crimes, and content with no ongoing public interest.
High Court petition: filed at the relevant High Court as a writ petition under Article 226, invoking the right to privacy under Article 21.
Google India notice: formal notice to Google's India operations demanding de-indexing pending the court order.
Court order enforcement: once the High Court issues an order, it is served on all search engines and platform operators.
Right to Be Forgotten in Ahmedabad: the local legal context
Ahmedabad, Surat, and Vadodara fall within the Gujarat High Court, which sits in Ahmedabad. The Gujarati business community is frequently targeted through false complaint articles on Gujarati-language portals, fake review campaigns on trade platforms, and defamatory WhatsApp forwards circulated within business networks.
Trade and commodity market defamation on Gujarati business forums
WhatsApp-spread false accusations in business community networks
Fake JustDial and IndiaMART reviews targeting manufacturing businesses
Ahmedabad content removal cases involve Gujarati-language news portals, JustDial and Google Maps reviews targeting the city's textile, pharmaceutical, and trading-business owners, and increasingly LinkedIn-based defamation in the financial-services and stock-trading communities.
Gujarat High Court sits in Ahmedabad but has no original civil side, so a civil suit starts in the competent civil court in Ahmedabad.
Highest-risk Ahmedabad industries: Pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing executives (regulatory-rumour and product-quality defamation), textile and trading-house owners (consumer-portal review attacks), and stock-broker community members (financial-forum defamation).
In Ahmedabad, right-to-be-forgotten relief rests on the Information Technology Act 2000 (Section 79 read with IT Rules 2021, which set platform deadlines of three hours on a court order, two hours on intimate images or impersonation of a person, and seven days on most other complaints, defamation included), criminal defamation under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 s.356 (formerly IPC 499/500), and civil injunctions from the competent civil court in Ahmedabad. Across 25+ cities RepuLex maintains a 97% case success rate — permanent removal, not suppression.
India has no statutory Right to Be Forgotten in force yet, but High Courts have granted de-indexing relief under Article 21. The right to erasure in Section 12 of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 comes into force in May 2027.
How long does it take to get right to be forgotten in Ahmedabad?+
A writ petition under Article 226 runs on Gujarat High Court's calendar, usually weeks to months. A de-indexing request to Google can be filed in parallel while it is pending. The right to erasure in Section 12 of the DPDP Act 2023 comes into force only in May 2027.
Can RepuLex help you get right to be forgotten in Ahmedabad?+
Yes. RepuLex takes on this work for clients across Gujarat and the rest of India; legal notices and court filings are drafted and served by the partner law firm. The IT Act 2000 and the IT Rules 2021 apply to every intermediary offering services in India, wherever the platform is hosted, so a notice for a Ahmedabad client runs the same way as one sent from anywhere else. Where a court order is needed, the partner law firm files in the competent civil court in Ahmedabad, and before Gujarat High Court for writ petitions.
What does it cost to get right to be forgotten in Ahmedabad?+
This work is not priced per URL. After the free case assessment it is scoped and quoted as a fixed fee before any commitment, and there is no monthly retainer. The per-URL removal rates are on the pricing page.
Need help? RepuLex handles it for you in Ahmedabad.
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