Akshat Baldwa & Anr. v. Maddock Films Private Limited and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Akshat Baldwa & Anr. v. Maddock Films Private Limited & Ors.; W.P.(C) 16802/2024 with CM APPLs.6363/2025, 10812/2025, 32463/2025; High Court of Delhi; Justice Sachin Datta; order dated 16.10.2025; disposal of writ petition relating to accessibility of OTT content for persons with hearing and visual impairment; Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPwD Act, 2016); Union of India status report; draft Guidelines for Accessibility of Content on OTT platforms released for public consultation; Annexure-R-3/E; petitioners' feedback to be considered before final guidelines; final guidelines within three months; liberty to pursue legal remedies; pending applications disposed of; Netflix appearing as proposed R-8 through Saikrishna Rajgopal.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed of on the basis of the respondents' recorded assurances that the petitioners' suggestions/feedback on the draft guidelines shall be duly considered before formulation of the final guidelines, and that the final guidelines shall be issued within three months; liberty reserved to the petitioners and other stakeholders to take appropriate legal remedies against the guidelines as framed; pending applications disposed of.