Losing Side Finally Gets To Fight Back: How Supreme Court Rewrote Rules On Interim Relief In Arbitration

Imagine you have just lost arbitration. The award sits on the table, and the other side is already moving to enforce it. You believe the award is wrong – perhaps it was procured through fraud, or perhaps the arbitrator overlooked a decisive point of law. While you challenge the award under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, a process that can take years, the...

Can Deletion From Electoral Roll After SIR Be Ground To Deny Passport?

The revelation made by R Rajagopal, former Editor of the prominent daily The Telegraph, that his Passport is not being renewed due to the exclusion of his name from the electoral roll in West Bengal after the Special Intensive Revision has given rise to grave concerns. Rajagopal said that his name was deleted, citing "logical discrepancies" - the special category the Election Commission of India devised for West Bengal, which led to the deletion of over 27 lakh voters - as his name or his...

Land Beneath Blackboard: Constitutional Questions Raised By Karnataka's Recent Land Regularisation Law

The Karnataka Government Educational Institutions' Lands (Protection and Regularisation) Act, 2026 is among the most interesting pieces of State legislation enacted this year. At first glance, it appears to be a narrow statute intended to protect lands occupied by government schools and educational institutions. However, a closer read of it reveals that it sits at the crossroads of three distinct legal fields, which are land laws, acquisition laws and education laws. Further, this raises...

AI In Courtroom And Classroom: Beyond Hype

The role of the teacher must therefore evolve. The most effective teachers of the future will be those who focus on dimensions of education that technology cannot easily replicate. Personal mentorship, intellectual guidance, motivation, and emotional support are deeply human qualities that remain beyond the reach of machines. Teachers who can engage students, inspire genuine curiosity, and make learning enjoyable will remain indispensable.

Justice Mahabir Singh Sindhu Passes Away: Punjab & Haryana High Court Loses A Compassionate And Fearless Voice

The legal fraternity mourns the untimely demise of Justice Mahabir Singh Sindhu, a sitting Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, who passed away on June 28, 2026. His sudden departure marks a profound loss to the institution he served with unwavering dedication, integrity, and empathy.Justice Sindhu was regarded as a judge of exceptional strength and sensitivity. Known for his...

How 'Commercial Wisdom' Eclipsed Law In Bhushan Steel Saga

Few phrases in Indian corporate law have acquired the canonical sanctity of the “commercial wisdom of the Committee of Creditors”. Born of an anxiety to keep courts out of boardroom arithmetic, the phrase has grown into a leviathan, swallowing text, timelines and basic constitutional tenets. The insolvency saga of M/s Bhushan Power and Steel Limited (BPSL) is a sobering case study of what happens when an expression nowhere found in the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 is elevated to a...

When IVF Goes Wrong: India Needs Better Safeguards Against Embryo Mix-Ups

For couples who cannot have children naturally, IVF has been a gift. Over the past two decades, it has helped thousands of Indian families have a baby when nature alone could not. Clinics have sprung up in almost every major city, and India has become one of the most popular destinations in the world for fertility treatment, drawing patients from abroad as well as a growing number from within the country. For most families, the process ends happily, with a baby in their arms and years of waiting...

Memoir Of Constitutional Lawyering & Feminist Resistance : On Indira Jaising's 'Constitution Is My Home'

American poet Sylvia Plath once wrote how she saw her life branching out like a green fig tree, each fig a different path and the anxiety of choosing one. This analogy may fit every woman well, unless you are Indira Jaising. She could have chosen an ordinary home and an ordinary life. Instead, she chose to call the Constitution her home. But to call something a home requires defending...

Can AI Companies Rely On Section 52 Of Copyright Act To Train Large Language Models?

The Next Big Copyright Question in IndiaA crossroads has been created with respect to generative AI and copyright law. Large Language Models are trained on heavy volumes of images, text and other creative works out of which many are protected by copyright law. In the contemporary world, authors, publishers and different technology companies have been litigating over whether this process of training needs copyright permission from owners or falls within statutory exceptions. The answer to this...

Can Delay Defeat Statutory Remedies? Re Examining Open Offer Directions Under SEBI Takeover Code

The obligation to make an open offer under the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011 (“SAST Regulations 2011”), is triggered the moment the prescribed shareholding or control thresholds are crossed, and that obligation is not extinguished merely because SEBI initiates enforcement late or because appellate and writ proceedings take years to conclude. In parallel, the Supreme Court's strict‑liability approach to penalties in...

A Legislative Commentary On 2026 Delimitation Framework

Delimitation is the process of redrawing the boundaries of Lok Sabha and State Assembly constituencies to ensure that each seat represents an approximately equal number of voters. Philosophically it is the practical application of the “one person, one vote, one value.” History of the Indian census follows back to early experiments of census in particular cities such as Allahabad (1824) and Banaras (1827-28) which was later followed by the first non-noncontemporary national census in 1872 under...

The Last Bourbon At Gymkhana Club

A satire on the Gymkhana legal issueIt is a tragicomedy that underpins the story of a powerful man who discovers, usually in his early seventies and usually at a bar he has frequented since his early forties, that the world has moved on without so much as leaving a forwarding address. He still has the posture, the vocabulary, the institutional memory, and the club tie. What he no longer has, as of May 22, 2026, is the lease.The Delhi Gymkhana Club, 27.3 acres of mahogany-panelled,...