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ARTICLE · 18 FEBRUARY 2026

India's AI Governance Regime: Interplay Of IT Act, DPDP Act, And Sectoral Regulations

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India's regulatory ecosystem is proactively shaping AI governance without a standalone AI Act, leveraging robust sectoral frameworks to ensure innovation thrives alongside accountability.

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Kritika Krishnamurthy
Kritika Krishnamurthy

Introduction

India's regulatory ecosystem is proactively shaping AI governance without a standalone AI Act, leveraging robust sectoral frameworks to ensure innovation thrives alongside accountability. As of February 2026, there is no dedicated, comprehensive AI-specific legislation, with oversight emerging from the Information Technology Act, 2000, Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and recent February 2026 amendments to IT Intermediary Rules targeting synthetically generated content.

Liability and risk allocation adopt a control-based principle, holding human deployers accountable for foreseeable harms like biased decisions or breaches under tort, contract, consumer protection, and DPDP norms, rather than diffusing responsibility to algorithms or third parties.

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