Deepfakes are digitally manipulated synthetic media content (e.g., videos, images, sound clips) in which people are shown to do or say something that never existed or happened in the real world. ^{April 28, 2025} National Security and Strategic Studies , Governance and Political Studies , Article , artificial intelligence , Cybercrime , AI , Legal , Judiciary , Privacy , Crime , Deepfake , BNS 2023 , IPC , DPDP Act 2023 , Legal Reforms