PRIVACY RIGHTS AND SOCIAL SURVEILLANCE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA
India’s digital boom hasn’t just made life more connected. It’s also brought a flood of new tech that tracks people by state, by businesses, and pretty much everywhere. Take the biometric systems: they decide who gets food or welfare. Or the facial recognition cameras popping up in public places. Or laws that hand huge interception […]
Cross-Border Insolvency in India: Evaluating the Need for UNCITRAL Model Law Adoption in 2026.
Modern global trade operates with assets and debts scattered across multiple nations, yet legal frameworks often remain confined within strict national boundaries. While India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code of 2016 successfully reformed domestic debt resolution, its cross-border mechanism under Sections 234 and 235 remains inadequate, relying on non-existent bilateral treaties and exact reciprocity. This statutory […]
Gayatri Balasamy v. ISG Novasoft Technologies (2025): Exploring the Limits of Judicial Power to Modify Arbitral Awards.
The landmark ruling in Gayatri Balasamy v. M/s ISG Novasoft Technologies Limited, delivered on April 30, 2025, settled a crucial controversy in Indian arbitration law by determining whether courts possess the authority to modify arbitral awards under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The case arose from an employment dispute involving sexual […]
Is Your Influencer Secretly an AI? The New 2026 Disclosure Laws
As artificial intelligence continues to seamlessly blend into digital marketing, the line between authentic human creators and hyper-realistic synthetic personas has blurred. This document examines the critical shift in global digital marketing regulations in 2026, which mandate strict transparency for AI-generated influencers to prevent consumer deception. Relying on traditional “#ad” or “#sponsored” tags is no […]
The Jan Vishwas Bill 2026: Decriminalizing Business and its Impact on Ease of Doing Business in India.
The Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill 2026, approved by the Lok Sabha on April 1, 2026, marks a sweeping shift away from India’s colonial-era legacy of regulatory overcriminalization. For decades, minor compliance lapses like typos and paperwork errors carried severe prison threats, creating an atmosphere of fear that heavily burdened entrepreneurs and small businesses. […]
Test Identification Parade: A Duty to Cooperate or a Right to Refuse?
This paper examines the legal debate surrounding Test Identification Parades (TIPs) and whether an accused has a duty to participate or a constitutional right to refuse. It is based on the Supreme Court judgment in Mukesh Singh v State (2023), the right against self-incrimination in Article 20(3) and various interpretations of legal scholars. The paper […]
NO SAFETY NET, WHY THE LAW FORGOT INDIA’S CIRCUS WORKERS
This paper looks at the absence of any legislation to protect adult circus workers in India, even though they are engaged in dangerous activities. It discusses the history of non-effectiveness of protective legislation, the absence of circus workers from important labour laws and the implications of this loophole in the regulatory system as per Article […]
SURESH VS THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH 2025 INSC 918 : Public Records Over Private Certificates, The Supreme Court on Proving Juvenility
This paper examines Supreme Court’s decision in Suresh v. State of Uttar Pradesh, 2025 in Juvenility determination in criminal proceedings. It discusses the Court’s bias towards the public records and authentic medical reports in preference to private school certificates and elucidates the Juvenile Justice Rules and the Indian Evidence Act. The paper concludes that the […]
COMMERCIAL INTEGRATION OF EVTOLS FOR HIGH-ALTITUDE MILITARY OPERATIONS
Indian Army faces an extreme logistical and connectivity challenges in its high-altitude border zones which have been traditionally dependent on animal transport and helicopters. But increasing needs at the border, limited numbers of high-altitude helicopters, and physiological impact on soldiers have demanded for an essential change. In this context, the paper examines the prospects of […]
BRIDGING LIABILITY GAPS IN AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORT
The emergence of autonomous transport signifies a profound fundamental shift in the modern mobility by transferring the locus of control from human cognition to algorithmic performance. This paradigm shift does not merely alter the mechanics of transportation, but it also fundamentally disrupts the centuries old legal doctrines that govern vehicular torts and liability. As transportation […]