Digital Footprint, Global Fault Lines: Data Extraction From Global South

A search query typed into a phone in Nairobi, a mobile money transaction from Singapore, a photography uploaded from Jodhpur India; each of this act generate data that outlive the moment of its creation. Collectively these traces are Described as “digital Footprint” a cumulative record of behaviour, preference and identity that persists long after the user has moved on. What Is less often examined is where that footprint goes, who processes it, and who profit from it? The answer, increasingly,...

Constitutional Limits Of $5,000 “Trump Dividend”

President Donald Trump's proposal to give every adult American citizen a $5,000 “dividend” if the Republicans, were to retain control of both houses of the United States Congress, in the Mid-term elections scheduled for later this year in November, has raised an immediate political question about whether the promise amounts to an attempt to influence voters. The more fundamental legal question, however, is different, which is that even if the proposal is politically permissible, does the...

Moti Bagh Collapse And Case For Delhi Paying Guest Regulation Law

A five-storey building operating as a paying guest hostel for students, "Hostel Days" collapsed near Satya Niketan in Delhi's Moti Bagh on September 6, 2026. The building housed a boys' paying guest accommodation close to Delhi University's South Campus and stood on a plot of about 55 square yards. Municipal officials have since stated that no sanctioned building plan existed for the structure, and that construction carried out in the basement was unauthorised. The death toll has risen to six,...

Cruelty As Ground For Divorce: Doctrinal Paradox At Heart Of Hindu Matrimonial Law

Cruelty is, without question, the single most litigated fault ground under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. It is also the least defined. Section 13(1)(ia) permits a spouse to seek divorce if the other has “treated the petitioner with cruelty”, but Parliament never told courts what cruelty actually means. Fifty years after the concept was written into the divorce provision by the Marriage Laws (Amendment) Act, 1976, that silence has produced something genuinely paradoxical: a ground of divorce that...

Cost Of Convenience: UPI, MDR And India's Digital Future

“There is no such thing as a free lunch”When we buy a ₹25 golgappa, we scan a QR code, nod at the shopkeeper, and walk away, no cash, no change, no second thought. That is perhaps the biggest achievement of the Unified Payments Interface's (UPI), not just that it has digitised payments, but it also made the movement of money almost invisible. August 25th, 2026 marked a decade of UPI. What began in 2016 as an interoperable payment platform now operates across 11 countries and has become inbuilt...

Article 226 Detour Closes: Supreme Court On Writ Restraint Against Appealable NCLT Orders

In a decision that quietly settles one of the most persistent friction points between constitutional remedies and the insolvency framework, a Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Vijay Bishnoi held in Davis Koottala Varkey & Ors. v. Samson T. George & Ors. (2026 SCC OnLine SC 1560) that where an order of the National Company Law Tribunal is appealable under Section 61 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, judicial discipline requires the High Court...

Electoral Rights Of Person With Disability

The Right to Vote, also known as suffrage, is the cornerstone of the democratic process bestowed upon citizens to participate in the electoral process by casting their votes to elect representatives enshrined in the Constitution i.e Article 326: Provides right to every citizen to vote based on universal adult franchise and electoral laws i.e. RPA,1950, Section 16: Bars non – citizen being enrolled for citizen and Section 62: Bars disqualified person to vote of the country.There are 96.88Cr...

When Law Is Corrected But File Stays Closed: Benami Confiscation After Manjula

For decades, the law instructed the State that benami property could be taken, but it gave no effective means of doing so. Similarly, Section 3 of the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988 prohibited benami transactions from happening, while Section 5 made benami property liable to acquisition by the government. Yet the 1988 Act supplied little to no machinery which were necessary to translate those declarations into definitive action as envisaged within the act i.e. there was no...

Is CLAT Testing The Right Skills For Law School?

Every year, thousands of students prepare for CLAT with one objective: securing a seat at a National Law University. But there is a more fundamental question that deserves greater attention: what exactly should a law entrance examination be designed to identify?The purpose of CLAT cannot merely be to rank students efficiently. It should, as far as possible, identify candidates who possess the intellectual foundations required to study law.Having experienced legal education first as a student and...

Can Corporate Debtor's Database Be An Asset Under IBC?

When a company is liquidated, its factories, receivables, Intellectual Property, and other assets, all go into a defined pool, called the liquidation estate, for the liquidator to realise and distribute. However, a company's most valuable holding is neither of these, and increasingly so, as in the modern world, a company's most valuable resource has become its customer database. In the case of the liquidation of Jet Airways, its 49.9% stake in JetPrivilege Pvt. Ltd., the company operating its...

Compliance Without Court: What DPDPA Board's Vacancy Means For May 2027

Ask most compliance teams what happens to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act this November, and the answer tends to be some version of “enforcement begins.” That isn't quite right, and the gap between the popular timeline and the actual one matters more than it looks. The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules were notified on 14 November 2025, after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology worked through roughly 6,900 stakeholder comments gathered across seven cities. Rule...

When State Knows Everything: Is India's New RTI–DPDP Conflict Creating Constitutional Right To Information Crisis?

There is a particular irony in a data protection statute becoming the instrument that narrows a citizen's access to information about the state. Section 44(3) of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 does exactly this. It rewrites Section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act, 2005, and in doing so, it does not merely tweak an exemption clause it removes the balancing exercise that has anchored India's transparency regime for two decades. Three writ petitions currently pending before...