Alisha Chauhan, Phoolwati College, CCSU ABSTRACT The proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has weaponized digital media through "deepfakes"—highly convincing, algorithmically manipulated audio, visual, or audio-visual content. In the Indian context, the malicious application of this technology spans across critical dimensions: financial extortion, electoral subversion, targeted political disinformation, and the involuntary sexualization of individuals through...