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IndiaMART InterMesh Limited v. OpenAI Inc. & Ors., IP-COM/57/2025 (GA-COM/1/2025), Calcutta High Court, Order dated December 24, 2025

Calcutta High Court December 2025 landmark order in IndiaMART v OpenAI finding strong prima facie case of selective algorithmic discrimination after ChatGPT excluded Indian B2B marketplace from AI-generated search results while displaying competitors, ruling USTR reports non-binding and questioning OpenAI's intermediary obligations under Indian law in India's first judicial proceeding on AI platform exclusion.

The AIACT.IN India AI Regulation Tracker

This is a simple regulatory tracker consisting all information on how India is regulating artificial intelligence as a technology, inspired from a seminal paper authored by Abhivardhan and Deepanshu Singh for the Forum of Federations, Canada, entitled, "Government with Algorithms: Managing AI in India’s Federal System – Number 70".

We have also included case laws along with regulatory / governance documents, and avoided adding any industry documents or policy papers which do not reflect any direct or implicit legal impact.

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December 2025

Issuing Authority

Calcutta High Court (Intellectual Property Rights Division)

Type of Legal / Policy Document

Judicial Pronouncements - National Court Precedents

Status

In Force

Regulatory Stage

Regulatory

Binding Value

Legally binding instruments enforceable before courts

Related Long-form Insights on IndoPacific.App

Regulatory Sovereignty in India: Indigenizing Competition-Technology Approaches [ISAIL-TR-001]

Deciphering Artificial Intelligence Hype and its Legal-Economic Risks [VLiGTA-TR-001]

Averting Framework Fatigue in AI Governance [IPLR-IG-013]

Reckoning the Viability of Safe Harbour in Technology Law, IPLR-IG-015

Related draft AI Law Provisions of aiact.in

Section 15 – Guidance Principles for AI-related Agreements

Section 16 – Guidance Principles for AI-related Corporate Governance

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