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JioStar names Anvita Thapliyal vice president for content regulation
Disney Star veteran moves to shape compliance, risk and policy at scale
MUMBAI: JioStar has brought in Anvita Thapliyal as vice president, content regulation, sharpening its guardrails as India’s streaming and broadcast markets race ahead under tighter scrutiny.
Thapliyal joins with nearly two decades across television and digital content, straddling creation and compliance in an industry where a single misstep can snowball into regulatory heat. She has most recently led standards and practices at Star India, where she built and ran one of the country’s most established content compliance and risk-mitigation operations across general entertainment, movies and digital platforms.
Her résumé reads like a map of India’s modern media evolution. From supervising fiction at Taurus Telefilms to acquisitions and programming at Palador Pictures, and from content strategy roles at MobilArt and Balaji Telefilms to senior leadership at Disney Star, Thapliyal has worked across the full content lifecycle—development, distribution, monetisation and regulation.
At Disney Star, as director, standards and practices, she led a 30-plus team, drove automation-led change, and crafted content and community policies with a regulatory and brand-safety lens. She also worked closely with creative, sales, marketing and technology teams to pre-empt compliance risks in real time.
Thapliyal has additionally handled large-scale compliance operations for JioHotstar, dealing with the breakneck speed and scale of OTT content. Her expertise spans legal and regulatory compliance across India, South-East Asia, the Middle East and the UK, along with grievance redressal and public-forum governance.
She positions compliance not as censorship but as calibration—balancing artistic freedom with platform integrity, and empathy for creators with accountability to audiences.
As regulators circle closer and platforms grow bigger, JioStar’s bet is clear: in the content gold rush, guardrails are now as valuable as the content itself. And Thapliyal arrives to build them at full throttle.
Brands
Jubilant FoodWorks faces Rs 47.5 crore GST demand, plans appeal
Tax authorities flag alleged misclassification of restaurant services
MUMBAI:Â Jubilant FoodWorks Limited has landed in a tax tussle after receiving a GST demand of Rs 47.5 crore from the office of the additional commissioner of CGST and central excise in Thane, Maharashtra.
The order, issued under the provisions of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017, relates to an alleged incorrect classification of certain services under the category of restaurant services. According to the tax authorities, this classification resulted in a short payment of goods and services tax for the period between the financial years 2019-20 and 2021-22.
The demand includes Rs 47.5 crore in GST along with an equal amount as penalty, in addition to applicable interest. The order was received by the company on March 13, 2026.
In a regulatory filing to the BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited, the company said it disagrees with the order and believes its arguments were not adequately considered.
The company is preparing to challenge the decision and plans to file an appeal. It added that once the redressal process is complete, the demand is likely to be dropped.
Despite the sizeable figure attached to the notice, the company said it does not expect any material impact on its financials, operations or other activities.
The disclosure was signed by Suman Hegde, EVP and chief financial officer, who confirmed that the company received the order at 19:06 IST on March 13 and has already initiated steps to contest it.
The development places the quick service restaurant major in the middle of a tax debate that could hinge on how certain restaurant-linked services are classified under GST rules. For now, the company appears ready to take the matter from the tax office to the appeals desk.
