Likes, Shares, And Liability: The Evolution Of Finfluencer Regulation In India.

The modern Indian investment adviser no longer operates from a desk on Dalal Street. More often, significant financial advice comes via smartphones, short videos, and the unclear logic of algorithms. In this landscape, “finfluencers,” who are social media figures discussing money, markets, and investing, have become influential but loosely regulated links between retail investors and the securities market.I. The Rise of Finfluencers in India(i) Growth of Retail ParticipationThe growth of...

Gavel And Court: Analyzing Judicial Review In Speaker Rulings

Raghav Chadha and two-thirds of AAP's Rajya Sabha members (legislature party) have merged with the BJP, citing the Tenth Schedule's merger exception (4th paragraph) and a Bombay High Court precedent. In 2019, 10 of 15 Goa Congress MLAs merged with the BJP. The Speaker rejected a subsequent disqualification petition, a decision upheld by the Bombay High Court in 2022. The Bombay High Court affirmed that a two-thirds majority of the legislature party is sufficient for a valid merger under the...

Delhi Rent Control Act, A Case for Reference To A Larger Bench

The Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 (DRC Act) was enacted as a situational legislation in the aftermath of the Partition of India which led to a temporary housing shortage. Being a socio-economic legislation, it required periodic review to remain in consonance with the changing times. However, the Executive's inaction in not issuing a commencement notification to enforce the Delhi Rent Act, 1995, coupled with judicial deference, has led to DRC Act assuming permanence.Disputes under the DRC Act...

Policing The Soul: Anti-Conversion Laws, Quiet Unravelling Of Constitutional Freedom

When the State begins to require permission for belief or affection, it no longer regulates conduct alone. It begins to intrude into the inner life of the individual.Certain freedoms occupy a constitutional space so intimate that any regulatory oversight appears inherently disquieting. The freedom to think, to believe and love forms the core of human dignity. In contemporary India, these freedoms are increasingly subjected to legislative suspicion under the rubric of anti-conversion laws. The...

Where Are We Heading? Disturbing Events

The defection of 7 AAP Rajya Sabha members and their joining the ruling BJP signals a dangerous portent for probity in public life.Defections flout the people's mandate which is the very soul of democracy. Democracy is reduced to a mockery. It is to address this malady that the Anti-Defection law - Schedule X to the Constitution was brought in. While members/legislators who defect suffer disqualification, some exception is carved out -in paragraph 4- that it would not apply in case of merger....

J&K Private Universities Act, 2026: Expansion Or Transformation?

For decades, students from Jammu and Kashmir have been forced to leave the region in search of quality higher education. The Jammu and Kashmir Private Universities Act, 2026, seeks to reverse this trend, but whether it can transform the system or merely expand it remains an open question. The legislation marks a decisive policy shift from an exclusively state-driven model to a mixed higher education system, responding to a long-standing demand from educators, civil society, and industry...

From Suspension To Civil Death: Rethinking Subsistence Allowance In Indian Service Jurisprudence

The legitimacy of a democratic state rests upon a social contract where the sovereign safeguards the livelihood of its servants. Within the framework of service jurisprudence, the provision of a subsistence allowance is the primary mechanism that prevents an administrative suspension from devolving into a violation of the constitutional right to life.[1] But the practical question arises, whether the state is capable of safeguarding such a right of employees facing suspension.The dictionary...

Supreme Court Clarifies: Section 480(3) BNSS Bail Condition Not Applicable To Offences Punishable Up To Seven Years

In a significant order passed on 22nd April 2026, the Supreme Court settled an important question of bail jurisprudence that trial court across country had been getting wrong since Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) came into force. In Narayan v. State of Madhya Pradesh, SLP (Crl.) No. 7011 of 2026, a division bench comprising Justice J.K. Maheshwari and Atul S. Chandurkar held that the mandatory conditions prescribed under Section 480 (3) BNSS do not apply to non-bailable offences...

From Rigid Law To Lived Reality: Delhi High Courts' Guidelines On Quashing Consensual POCSO Cases

In a Delhi High Court judgment delivered on 16th April 2026, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani invoked Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to remind us that “the life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”The facts in Harmeet Singh v. State (GNCT of Delhi) are not new. A 22 year old man and a 17 year old girl entered into a relationship, the girl got pregnant, so they married and had the child. The criminal process was set in motion not by complaint of the girl, but by the hospital where...

How Government Control Affects Gender Identity: A Psychological View Of Transgender Law In India

The recognition of identity is central to an individual's psychological well-being, dignity, and sense of self (Erikson, 1968). For transgender people in India, identity is not merely a personal matter but also a legal right. Before the National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India judgment, the identity of transgender persons existed in a complex and marginalized form. The Court declared them as a “third gender” and recognized their right to self-identify their gender under Article 21 of...

Right Of Foetus v. Woman's Autonomy : Contrasting Judicial Approaches

'Pro-life' v 'Pro-choice' is an issue that countries around the world continue to debate. The significance of this issue is so profound that a country, which supposedly is the world's oldest democracy, overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision, which protected women's right to abortion as an intrinsic part of the right to privacy.Fortunately, India doesn't have that kind of problem...

Justice K.K. Mathew-Lest We Forget

Kuttiyil Kurien Mathew is one who is highly regarded for his erudition and seminal contribution to Constitutional and Administrative Law. Prof Upendra Baxi perceptively observed, “We live in an era of massacre of ancestors which is considered a public virtue and a sign of worldly progress. But collective amnesia of what happened in the past is not an estimable virtue. Without living in the past its recall is important, for, it necessarily presages a future.” It is in this backdrop that we have...