In the Internet age access to information is quick and procuring personal information or antecedents of an individual is much easier. Acknowledging this fact and the sensitive nature of case in hand, the Karnataka High Court in a landmark judgment recently Sri Vasunathan vs The Registrar General, has accepted, applied and approved the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ in Indian context. The “right to be forgotten” or “the right to be erased” allows an individual to request for removal of his/her personal information/data online. The origin of this right can be traced back to the French jurisprudence on the ‘right to oblivion’ or droit à l’oubli. The rationale behind it was to allow offenders who had served their sentence to object to the publication of information regarding their crime and conviction in order to ease their process of social integration. these lines that the European Union Data Protection Directive, 1995 acknowledged the right to be forgotten, wherein it was stip...