Introduction The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”) is India’s first dedicated data privacy law. The Act applies only to digital personal data, leaving out other categories of data from its ambit. However, even in this limited category, the meaning of personal data is not entirely clear. Section 2(t) of the act defines […]
Introduction The fundamental purpose of copyright law is the protection of original expressions of ideas, stemming from principles of fair play. But copyright law is not restricted to just such protections. It also involves a bargain between the need to foster innovation by incentivising the producers of intellectual property, and the interests of the public
Introduction: The Everyday Struggle for Justice In the courtroom, it is often seen the silent fatigue on the face of a woman waiting for her maintenance order, sometimes clutching her child’s hand, sometimes sitting alone with eyes fixed on the floor. For her, justice is not an abstract principle, it is the means to secure
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Introduction Novel accountability and liability questions, as the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes a new reality, have become important issues to be addressed. One such possibility lies in the area of taxation. Numbers, Data, Filing, and Compliance are a few of the myriad terms when one talks about taxation, coincidentally, most of them collide
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Introduction Recently, approximately 1.5 million regular users of the mental health chatbot ‘Woebot’ were confronted with the platform’s termination. Founder Alison Darcy cited regulatory hurdles coupled with the immense disparity between the pace at which Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and legal frameworks are evolving as reasons for Woebot’s discontinuation. While accessibility and timely responses are being
Introduction A major development in the battle between shadow libraries like sci-hub and libgen (the ‘pirates’ of academia) and academic publishers like Elsevier came when the Delhi High Court (‘DHC’), in late August 2025, ordered in Elsevier Ltd. v Alexandra Elbakyan CS(COMM) 572/2020 the blocking of sci-hub and its mirror sites citing non-compliance with its
The mistake committed in Anjum Kadari The SC discussed secularism in the constitutional context, and Article 28(1).[1] It cited Aruna Roy, and DAV College to lay down a distinction between ‘religious instruction’ and ‘religious education’.[2] It stated that Article 28(1) does not prohibit imparting ‘religious education’.[3] Additionally, it relied on St. Xavier’s to declare that
Introduction The Supreme Court (“SC”), in Anjum Kadari v. Union of India (“Anjum Kadari”), upheld the constitutionality of the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act 2004 (“Act”), overturning the decision by the Allahabad High Court (“HC”) in Anshuman Singh Rathore v. Union of India (“Anshuman Rathore”) which had found the Act violative of Article
INTRODUCTION Indian criminal jurisprudence has experienced a drastic change following the introduction of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) from the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on 1st July 2024. One such inclusion experienced is Section 69 of Chapter V of the BNS. Recently, a cricketer was booked under Section 69 of the BNS, charged for ‘offence against
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Introduction – Rising Phoenix Companies in India When a new company emerges from the ashes of a failed predecessor with the same controllers and operations, this activity is called the phoenixing of companies. The same directors and shareholders who were involved in the failed version of the company participate in the phoenix process, and they
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