Beyond Adoption Leave: Is Indian Workplace Law Doing Enough For Adoptive Parents?

Bringing home a child is one of the most significant lifestyle changes an individual can experience, and for many, adopting a child can be a truly wonderful experience. Adoption can be a challenging process, and it can demand a lot of time and require a certain amount of flexibility as well as financial and emotional support from employers. Nevertheless, for many, the most difficult part of adoption is getting the time off necessary to bond with their new child. Adoption can demand a great deal...

Misogyny Masked As Comedy: Sexist Humour, Digital Amplification And Limits Of Free Speech In India

A joke will hang around for 10 seconds on a stage. On the internet, it can remain accessible indefinitely.This change is highlighted by the recent controversy with stand-up comedian Pranit More. Audience member Himanshu Jangra, during a comedy show in Gurugram, shared that he spent ₹370 on biryani during a date with a girl and suggested that the expenditure entitled him to physical intimacy. The exchange was met with laughter from the audience, recorded and subsequently circulated widely online....

Regulation Of CCTV Footage And Installation: Much-Needed Law

Today, the world is living in the age of AI, where people can be easily reached, communicated with, accessed or stalked through their digital gadgets. These digital gadgets and technologies are coming out to make life faster, easier and more comfortable, but at the same time, humans are also misusing or abusing these digital gadgets and technologies. Indeed, there are always two sides of the same coin, but then the question arises: what to do? How to do? Who to do? When to do? These questions...

Mandatory Listing, Missing Enforcement: Default Ladder For Upper-Layer NBFCs

The debate over Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) rule that an Upper-Layer NBFC must list within three years has centered on whether the RBI can impose it. The more pressing question is what RBI can do when the deadline passes. The tools available to RBI fail on the factors that the fine is too small to deter, the license sanction fits the obligation poorly and neither reaches the shareholder who decides whether the company lists. However, the RBI can bridge this enforcement gap by extending its...

Beyond Bars: Why Supreme Court's Landmark Ruling On Grounds Of Arrest Is Triumph For Constitutionalism

On September 21, 2026, the Supreme Court of India delivered a landmark judgment regarding the arrest and detention of individuals, while dealing with a plea filed by Shiromani Akali Dal-affiliated leader Jaskaran Jeet Singh Deol in connection with a case of sexual assault on a minor in Jaskaran Jeet Singh Deol v. State of Punjab. A Bench comprising Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Atul S. Chandurkar ruled that failure to communicate the grounds of arrest in writing to the accused, subject to the...

Treatment Of Advance Deposits And Pre -CIRP Dues Under IBC Moratorium

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) impose a moratorium upon the initiation of a Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP). Section 14(1) of the IBC bars “any action to foreclose, recover or enforce any security interest created by the corporate debtor” and forbids the CD from “transferring, encumbering, alienating or disposing of” its assets. In effect, once insolvency proceedings start, all assets of the CD are frozen. This raises key questions: for example, if the CD had paid...

From Administrative Ease To Judicial Scrutiny: India's New Registration Regime

Anyone who wants to register a birth or death more than two years after it happened must now first obtain an order from a Judicial Magistrate of the First Class (JMFC). The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 2026 was notified on 6 August and came into force on 1 October. It adds section 13(3A) to the 1969 Act. Under the amended provision, a Registrar cannot register a birth or death more than two years after its occurrence without an order from a Judicial Magistrate of the First...

Impunity Beyond Judges: Is Section 16 Of 2023 CEC Act Justifiable?

A petition filed in November 2025 by Lok Prahari, an Uttar Pradesh-based NGO, challenging Section 16 of the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners Act, 2023, has been pending before the Supreme Court for months, with insubstantial gain. It has acquired fresh urgency after the Court observed orally on 5 October 2026 that the protection extended to the commission may be broader than that enjoyed even by judges of constitutional courts. Section 16 bars every civil and criminal...

Extended Passing Off In India: Evolution And Judicial Recognition

Passing off is a common law action that protects goodwill against misrepresentation. It is often described as a remedy for owners of unregistered trademarks, but it can also be invoked by registered trade mark owners, and what the action actually protects is the business reputation a trader has built, regardless of registration status.In its classical form, passing off stops one trader from misrepresenting that its goods or services originate from, or relate to, another trader. Extended passing...

India's Tariff Clock Is Now Running And WTO Can't Stop It

U.S President Donald Trump signed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 into law on September 18, 2026, after it cleared the House of Representatives 262-159 and the Senate 86-11. Section 113 of the Act gives the President 30 days from signing a deadline falling around mid-October , to fix a tariff of up to 100% on the top five buyers of Russian oil or natural gas. There is a narrow exemption: countries importing less than 15% of their natural gas from Russia, and taking...

Duty To Inform Or Duty To Deny? RTI Act's Quiet Turn From Answering To Evading

When Parliament enacted the Right to Information Act in 2005, it reversed a colonial-era default in the Indian administration which was inherited from the Official Secrets Act of 1923: that government functioned best behind closed files, and citizens had to justify why they deserved to see inside them. RTI inverted that logic. Disclosure to any citizen, on any public record held by a government body, became the rule while withholding it became the narrow exception, permitted only under specific,...

Monocracy In Election Commission: Testing Statutory Consensus Under 2023 CEC Act

A Public Interest Litigation filed in the Supreme Court on September 25, 2026, by advocate Shailendra Mani Tripathi has brought an unprecedented internal rift within the Election Commission of India into the judicial spotlight. It seeks the initiation of criminal proceedings against the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, under Section 32 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950, as well as a probe into the alleged unilateral orders of the CEC by forming a Special Investigation...