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The Delhi High Court on April 28, TechWiser (founded by Mrinal Saha, with Pratik Rai as on-screen host, 2.52 million subscribers) and TechBar (run by Sanchit Shokeen, 5.72 million subscribers) from making disparaging statements about AI+ Smartphones and its founder Madhav Sheth, on any social media or digital platform, without hearing either channel before passing the order. The order also includes a John Doe clause, which extends the restraint to unnamed future critics, covering speech that has not yet occurred. The next hearing is October 5.
Part of a growing pattern: This is the second ex-parte disparagement injunction, meaning an order passed without hearing the other side, against YouTube critics of a consumer tech brand in as many weeks. In April, Motorola obtained a similar order from a Bengaluru court naming 17 YouTube channels and all major platforms, with creators learning about it only after X’s support team emailed them.
Apar Gupta, founding director of the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), told MediaNama at the time that John Doe clauses were designed for piracy cases involving genuinely unidentifiable infringers and their migration into defamation litigation marks a significant expansion of judicial power. “They structurally incentivise over-removal of online criticism, with the user whose speech is taken down having the least effective remedy of any party in the system,” he said.
About AI+ Smartphones: NxtQuantum Shift Technologies operates AI+ Smartphones. Founder Madhav Sheth previously co-founded Realme India in 2018 before departing in June 2023. He launched AI+ in July 2025, marketing it around data sovereignty, the claim that Indian user data stays in India and is not shared with external parties. Per the company, phones run on NxtQuantum OS and are manufactured at United Telelinks’ Noida facility, with data stored on MeitY-approved Google Cloud infrastructure.
What the videos said: TechWiser’s “[This Indian Phone Is A Marketing Disaster!]” posted April 9 had 2.59 lakh views, and TechBar’s “[FAKE Indian Company – Needs to STOP]” posted April 14 had 3.32 lakh views at the time of filing.
Key findings from TechWiser’s hands-on review of the AI+ Pulse 2:
- Pratik Rai connected the phone to a laptop and ran ADB (Android Debug Bridge) commands, a developer tool that accesses parts of a phone’s software not visible to regular users, and found two Chinese apps from Shanghai-based ProCom Technologies, whose terms state it collects user name, profile picture, and phone number. The apps did not appear in the regular app drawer but showed up through ADB. AI+ had previously claimed to have removed these apps after earlier controversies flagged by channel Gyantherapy.
- The privacy dashboard, a feature AI+ markets as showing users which apps access their data, did not display Google app activity. Maps and Gboard accessed location and…
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