Emergency Removal · India's 2-Hour Rule · Confidential

Remove leaked private videos and photos from porn sites, Telegram and Google. India's two-hour route, run as an emergency.

RepuLex removes leaked private videos and photos from porn sites, Telegram channels, mirror hosts and Google results. Indian platforms are bound to two hours by Rule 3(2)(b) of the IT Rules 2021, and the major international adult sites act on a correctly filed non-consensual-content report typically within 24 to 48 hours. This is a paid, confidential emergency service at concessional rates for individuals, with no urgency surcharge. Matters we have handled include leaked private videos of prominent Bollywood and Tollywood personalities, under NDA, with no client ever named.

NDA before any case discussion. Your identity is not made public by the removal route. Send only the URLs; never send us the file.

Where leaked videos end up, and how each one is removed

A leaked private video is rarely in one place for long. It moves from the site where it was first found to mirrors, file lockers, Telegram channels and aggregator sites within days, and search results point at all of them. Each destination has its own route, and the timelines below are what a correctly filed complaint typically produces; the only fixed clock is the statutory one for Indian-regulated platforms.

Where it isHow it is removedTypical timeline
Pornhub and the other Aylo sitesContent-removal request for non-consensual content; Aylo is a StopNCII partner, so hash-blocking stops re-uploadsTypically 24–48 hours once correctly filed
XVideos and XNXXContent-removal and abuse routes run by the same operator; a notice citing the person’s non-consent and Indian law is filed with eachTypically 24–48 hours; escalated if silent
xHamster and smaller tube sitesReport-content route on the site, then a legal notice to the operator and its host; mirrors are chased in the same sweepTypically 24–48 hours; small hosts vary
Telegram channels and groupsReport to Telegram’s abuse desk with channel and message links; channels distributing intimate content are taken downUsually within a day; delivered files on phones cannot be recalled
Instagram, X, Reddit, YouTubeRule 3(2)(b) complaint to the grievance officer; these are Indian-regulated intermediaries bound to two hours2 hours by statute
Mirror hosts, file lockers, “MMS” aggregator sitesNotice to the host and its upstream provider; hash-matched re-upload monitoring; court order and blocking where a foreign host refusesDays for cooperative hosts; court route where not
Google SearchGoogle’s removal request for non-consensual explicit imagery, filed in parallel so results vanish while slow hosts comply; de-indexing under court direction where neededDays

The official routes above can be filed by anyone. What they do not do on their own is find every copy, hold each host to its clock, escalate the ones that go silent, and keep watching for re-uploads. That is the service.

Legal Basis

The fastest removal timeline in Indian content law

IT Rules 2021 — Rule 3(2)(b)

Requires an intermediary to remove or disable access within two hours of a complaint by the affected individual (24 hours until 20 February 2026), where content exposes a private area, shows full or partial nudity or a sexual act, or is impersonation including artificially morphed images. Deepfakes are expressly inside the rule.

MeitY NCII Standard Operating Procedure — 11 November 2025

Issued after the Madras High Court’s directions in X v. Union of India (2025). Made the statutory takedown window the operating standard (then 24 hours, two hours since 20 February 2026), requires significant social media intermediaries to run hash-matching and crawler tools so the same file cannot be re-uploaded, and routes victims through grievance officers, the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal and the 1930 helpline, local police, and One Stop Centres. The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre maintains the hash bank.

Delhi High Court — X v. Union of India (2021; further directions 2023)

Directed that intimate content be removed within 24 hours of a judicial order, that search engines de-index the offending URLs, and that intermediaries use automated tools to find and remove identical copies, so the victim is not left to hunt the internet and report the same file again and again.

IT Act 2000 — Sections 66E, 67 and 67A

Violation of privacy by capturing, publishing or transmitting images of a private area without consent (up to three years); publishing obscene material; and publishing sexually explicit material, which carries up to five years on first conviction. These run against whoever uploaded or circulated the file.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023

Voyeurism and stalking provisions apply against whoever captured or circulated the material, independent of the takedown route, and are the basis of any FIR you choose to file.

IT Act 2000 — Section 79 and Section 69A

Section 79 makes a platform’s protection from liability conditional on acting once it knows. Where a host sits outside India and ignores every notice, a court order executed under the 2009 Blocking Rules makes the URL unreachable from Indian networks.

By comparison, under the same rules a complaint about other listed unlawful content must be resolved within 36 hours, and a court order acted on within three hours. The regulated legal work, notices under advocate signature and court filings where a host refuses, is executed by our partner law firm, Unified Chambers And Associates.

What happens in the first 24 hours

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First hour: preserve, then act

Save every URL and take screenshots with visible dates before anything is deleted, so evidence survives removal. Do not engage with, pay, or reply to anyone threatening to spread the content; that is extortion, and it is handled as one.

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Same day: every complaint filed

Rule 3(2)(b) complaints go to every identified host and platform under the affected person’s own complaint; no FIR is required to begin. The porn sites’ content-removal routes, Telegram’s abuse desk and Google’s removal request are filed the same day.

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The sweep, not just the known copy

Leaked files mirror across tube sites, file hosts, aggregators and Telegram within days. We map the full spread and act on all of it, because removing only the copy you found is the classic failure: the mirrors re-seed search within a week.

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De-indexing, monitoring, re-upload response

Search results are cleared in parallel with host removals. Hash-based monitoring continues after confirmation, and re-uploads are filed against as they appear, because in this category re-uploading is normal and the engagement is built around it.

Pricing: paid, concessional for individuals, no surcharge

This is a paid service. Leaked-content matters are quoted as a sweep across every located copy, after the spread is mapped, because the spread and not the single link is the problem. Concessional rates apply to individuals; ask for them when you write. There is no emergency surcharge on this category, because the two-hour route is the standard here, not a premium. Fees are payable in advance, and the refund commitment applies as on every engagement: URLs not removed within their agreed timelines are refunded in full.

Track record, and why no name appears here

The matters we have handled in this category include leaked private videos and so-called MMS clips of prominent Bollywood and Tollywood personalities, alongside hundreds of private individuals. Every one is under NDA and no client is ever named, which is exactly the assurance you should want from anyone you trust with this.

Two lines we do not cross

Content involving anyone under 18 is child sexual abuse material, not a reputation matter. We do not handle it quietly; it goes to the police and cybercrime.gov.in, and we help you do exactly that. And no one can delete a WhatsApp message already on another person's phone; anyone promising that is not being truthful. What can be removed is the public distribution: channels, links and hosted files.

Straight Answers

Leaked videos and photos: every question, answered

My private photos or videos have been leaked online. What should I do in the first hour?+

Do four things, in this order. First, do not contact the person who posted it and do not pay anyone demanding money — payment almost always leads to further demands, and it destroys the leverage you have. Second, preserve evidence: screenshot the page including the full URL and the visible date, and save the link itself. Do not delete anything from your own phone or accounts, even messages you are ashamed of, because they establish that the content was private and shared in confidence. Third, report it to the platform immediately through its own reporting route — that starts a statutory clock, which matters even if you engage us later. Fourth, contact us on +91-93547-47487. Our initial assessment on this category is within the hour, not within a working day. Nothing you tell us goes further, and an NDA is executed before any detailed case discussion.

How quickly can leaked intimate content actually be taken down?+

The legal deadline is two hours. Rule 3(2)(b) of the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 requires an intermediary to remove or disable access to content within two hours of receiving a complaint from the affected individual (24 hours until 20 February 2026), where the material exposes a private area, shows full or partial nudity, depicts a sexual act, or is impersonation in electronic form including artificially morphed images. This is the shortest removal timeline anywhere in Indian content law: a defamation complaint gets a seven-day grievance clock, and obtaining a court order can take weeks. Practically, compliant platforms and mainstream hosts act inside that window. Non-compliant and offshore hosts take longer and need escalation, which is why we run these as a sweep rather than a single notice.

Which laws apply when someone shares my private images without consent?+

Several apply at once, which is what makes this category enforceable. IT Rules 2021 Rule 3(2)(b) gives the two-hour removal obligation. Section 66E of the IT Act 2000 makes capturing, publishing or transmitting images of a private area without consent punishable with up to three years imprisonment. Sections 67 and 67A of the IT Act cover publishing obscene and sexually explicit material electronically, with 67A carrying up to five years on first conviction. Under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, voyeurism and stalking provisions apply to the person who captured or circulated the material. Where the content sits behind a search result, the Right to Be Forgotten and privacy jurisprudence supports de-indexing separately from removal at the host. You do not need all of these to succeed — you need the right one for each platform.

The content has been copied to several sites. Can all of it be removed, or only the original?+

All of it is the objective, and it is the reason this work is handled as a sweep rather than as one notice. Leaked material mirrors quickly — a single video is typically reposted across aggregator sites, tube sites, file hosts, Telegram channels and sometimes a throwaway blog, each with a different host, jurisdiction and reporting route. We map the full spread first, including copies you have not found, and then work the whole set in parallel with the host, the CDN, the domain registrar and the search engines. Removing only the copy you know about is the most common mistake in this category, because the remaining mirrors re-seed the search results within days.

Do I have to file a police complaint or an FIR before you can act?+

No. Removal under the IT Rules is a civil route and runs on a complaint from you as the affected individual, not on a police report. We can begin the same day without an FIR. That said, an FIR is often worth filing in parallel where you want the person responsible identified or prosecuted, and it strengthens escalation against a host that ignores the civil route. We will tell you plainly when we think an FIR helps your case and when it only adds delay and exposure. The decision stays yours.

Will my name become public if I take action?+

Not through the removal route. Notices to platforms under Rule 3(2)(b) are made on your behalf by the partner law firm and are not published anywhere. Indian courts also restrict publication of the identity of victims in this category, and where proceedings are filed, anonymisation can be sought at the outset. The fear of being named is the single most common reason people leave this content up for months, and it is worth knowing that the fear is largely misplaced: the removal route is confidential by design. What we cannot control is a person who already knows and chooses to talk.

The images are morphed or AI-generated. Does that change anything?+

It strengthens your position rather than weakening it. Rule 3(2)(b) expressly covers impersonation in electronic form, "including artificially morphed images of such individual", so a deepfake or a face-swapped image falls inside the same two-hour obligation as a genuine photograph. You do not have to prove the image is real to have it removed — and you should never feel obliged to discuss whether it is. In practice, morphed content is often easier to action, because the platform does not have to weigh a consent question.

Can you remove it from Google as well as from the website hosting it?+

Yes, and both are necessary. Removal at the host deletes the file; de-indexing removes the search result that leads people to it. If only the host acts, cached copies and the search listing can persist; if only Google acts, the content stays live for anyone with the link. We pursue both in parallel and verify each. Google additionally operates a dedicated removal route for non-consensual explicit imagery which does not require a court order, and we use it alongside the statutory notice rather than instead of it.

What if the website is hosted outside India?+

Offshore hosting slows things down but does not put the content out of reach. Indian rules bind any intermediary offering services in India, and the largest platforms comply regardless of where they are incorporated. For genuinely non-compliant offshore sites, the routes that work are the host and upstream provider rather than the site operator, the CDN in front of it, the domain registrar, payment processors where the site is commercial, and de-indexing so the material is no longer findable even while it remains live. We will tell you honestly at assessment which of your URLs sit in this harder category, before you pay anything.

The content is circulating on Telegram and WhatsApp. Can that be stopped?+

Partly, and we will not overstate it. Telegram channels and bots can be reported and removed, and we do that, but the platform is slower and less consistent than mainstream hosts. WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, so no one can delete a message already sitting on someone else's phone. What can be done is removing the public distribution points that feed the private sharing — the channels, the links, the hosted files — so the material stops spreading and stops being findable. Anyone who promises to delete content from private phones is not being straight with you.

Can I file the platform complaints myself?+

You can, and nothing on this page depends on you not doing so. Google runs a removal request for non-consensual explicit imagery, the major adult sites and every large platform have a content-removal or grievance route, and StopNCII.org offers hash-blocking for adults that stops re-uploads on participating platforms. What those routes do not do on their own is find every mirror, hold each host to its clock, escalate the ones that stay silent, or keep watching for re-uploads, and they are one form at a time while the file keeps spreading. That work is what RepuLex is paid for; it is quoted as a sweep, at concessional rates for individuals, and it starts the same day.

What does removal of leaked photos or videos cost?+

This category is quoted as a sweep rather than per URL, because the same file is typically mirrored across many hosts and a per-URL price would be both punitive and misleading. We map the full spread first and quote against it, so you know the number before committing. Standard published rates apply where the matter is genuinely a small number of URLs on mainstream platforms. Fees are payable in advance and are refunded in full for anything not removed within the timeline agreed for it — including where a host simply refuses, because that is our risk to carry rather than yours.

What happens if the content is re-uploaded after it is removed?+

Re-uploading is normal in this category and the engagement is built around it rather than ending at the first takedown. Where the same URL reappears after a confirmed removal, we address it as a continuation at no additional charge. Where the material surfaces at a new URL, monitoring is what catches it — we watch the known spread and the search results for re-emergence and act on it rather than waiting for you to find it. Hash-based blocking through StopNCII is worth doing in parallel because it prevents some re-uploads from ever completing.

Who at RepuLex will see my photos or videos?+

As few people as possible, and never more than the work requires. We do not need you to send us the content itself to begin — URLs are enough, and URLs are what we work from. Where the material must be reviewed to prepare a notice, it is handled by the case lead and the advocate at the partner law firm, under an NDA executed before any detailed discussion, and it is not circulated internally, stored on personal devices or used in any case study, testimonial or marketing material. You may ask us at any point to confirm in writing what we hold and to delete it.

What if the person in the images is under 18?+

Then it is not a reputation matter and we will not treat it as one. Sexual content involving a minor is child sexual abuse material, and the correct route is an immediate report to the police and to the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal at cybercrime.gov.in, which has a dedicated reporting category for it. Reporting is a legal obligation, not a choice, and it takes priority over any removal engagement. We will help you make that report and will pursue removal and de-indexing alongside it, but we will not accept an instruction to handle such content quietly instead of reporting it.

हिन्दी में

लीक हुआ प्राइवेट वीडियो या फ़ोटो: ज़रूरी सवाल, सीधे जवाब

मेरा प्राइवेट वीडियो किसी पोर्न साइट पर लीक हो गया है। सबसे पहले क्या करूँ?+

पहले हर URL और स्क्रीनशॉट (तारीख के साथ) सुरक्षित कर लें, ताकि हटने के बाद भी सबूत रहे। फिर उसी दिन शिकायत दर्ज हो। IT Rules 2021 के नियम 3(2)(b) के तहत भारतीय प्लेटफ़ॉर्म को ऐसा कंटेंट शिकायत के 24 घंटे के भीतर हटाना होता है। RepuLex उसी दिन हर होस्ट, Telegram चैनल और Google पर कार्रवाई शुरू करता है और पूरे फैलाव (mirrors) को मैप करता है, सिर्फ़ उस एक लिंक को नहीं जो आपने देखा।

क्या FIR ज़रूरी है?+

नहीं। हटाने की कार्रवाई पीड़ित व्यक्ति की शिकायत पर चलती है, इसलिए काम उसी दिन शुरू होता है। FIR की सलाह तभी दी जाती है जब उससे वास्तव में मदद मिले, जैसे अपलोड करने वाले के खिलाफ़ कार्रवाई (IT Act की धारा 66E, 67A; BNS 2023 के voyeurism और stalking प्रावधान)।

क्या वीडियो Google सर्च से भी हटेगा?+

हाँ। होस्ट पर कार्रवाई के साथ-साथ Google का non-consensual explicit imagery हटाने का अनुरोध भी दायर किया जाता है, ताकि धीमे होस्ट के जवाब से पहले ही सर्च से परिणाम गायब हों। दिल्ली हाई कोर्ट ने X बनाम भारत संघ (2021) में सर्च इंजनों को ऐसे कंटेंट को de-index करने के निर्देश दिए हैं।

Telegram और WhatsApp पर फैल रहा है। क्या रुक सकता है?+

Telegram चैनल, लिंक और होस्ट की गई फ़ाइलें हटाई जा सकती हैं और चैनल बंद कराए जा सकते हैं। जो WhatsApp मैसेज पहले ही किसी के फ़ोन पर पहुँच चुका है, उसे कोई नहीं हटा सकता; जो कोई ऐसा वादा करे, वह सच नहीं बोल रहा। जो हटाया जा सकता है वह सार्वजनिक वितरण है, और वही हटाया जाता है।

फ़ीस कितनी है?+

यह एक सशुल्क सेवा है। फ़ीस पूरे फैलाव को मैप करने के बाद एक sweep के रूप में तय होती है, प्रति लिंक नहीं। व्यक्तियों के लिए रियायती दरें उपलब्ध हैं; पूछें। इस श्रेणी में कोई इमरजेंसी सरचार्ज नहीं है। भुगतान अग्रिम होता है, और तय समय-सीमा में न हटने वाले URL की फ़ीस पूरी वापस की जाती है।

The clock matters here more than anywhere else.

Send the URLs on WhatsApp. A senior case manager responds confidentially, tells you what can be removed and how fast, and quotes the sweep with the concessional rate applied.

Legally reviewedReviewed for legal accuracy by Advocate Subodh Bajpai, Delhi High Court · Legal Advisory Board Member, RepuLex. Regulated legal work is delivered by partner law firm Unified Chambers And Associates.