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Can You Still Believe What You See? Rethinking Deepfake Regulation After Article 50 of the EU AI Act
This piece argues that labelling alone cannot solve the deepfake problem, because synthetic content can be stripped of its provenance well before it reaches the public that needs protecting.
Khushi Sharma, Lakshay Arora
1 day ago6 min read
Evidentiary Asymmetry and a Warning from the Horizon Case: Analysing the Bankers’ Books Evidence Bill 2026
The Bill modernises the form of bankers’ books. Its certification architecture must also be modernised without diluting the evidentiary discipline that gives these records their legal weight.
Sai Sri Sarvani Kanda, Harinandana V
Oct 96 min read
Nominated but Not Protected: Why The DPDPA's Post-Mortem Framework Betrays Puttaswamy
This piece argues that the DPDPA’s post-mortem framework, when measured against Puttaswamy’s dignity based privacy foundation, is structurally inadequate.
Yash Kumar
Sep 256 min read
Banned Games, Trapped Funds: PROGA’s Refund Gap and Missing Refund Route
This post argues that PROGA classified the game but not the money held through it. By deleting draft Rule 24, the Rules left users with a restitutionary right but no clear means of receiving payment.
Prabhas Kumar, Atharv Garg
Sep 206 min read
From AGR to Aircel: How the Supreme Court Wrote Spectrum Out of IBC
Until Parliament and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India catch up, TSP resolutions, as well as those of other natural resources, will sit in the gap that the Supreme Court has just defined.
Sumedha Kashyap
Sep 126 min read
Beyond Liability: Rethinking Copyright Remedies in ANI v. Open AI
ANI v. OpenAI therefore represents more than another copyright dispute involving AI.
Addepalli Aaditya Hridai, Srijan Pandey
Sep 66 min read
Trademark Title Disputes in CIRP: Reconciling Value Maximisation With Jurisdictional Limits After Gloster
This article argues that insolvency law must respond to trademark title disputes through contractual structuring within the resolution plan.
Moksha Pancholi
Aug 307 min read
Regulatory Arbitrage in Reverse: Why CARF Cannot Achieve Tax Transparency in India's Crypto Ecosystem
This article argues that this shift towards offshore platforms, peer-to-peer, and decentralised exchanges has undermined CARF's implementation in India, limiting its capacity to generate meaningful tax transparency and reporting.
Adarsh Kumar, Sunniva Das
Aug 296 min read
Data as an Insolvency Asset: The IBC-DPDPA Disconnect
The JetAirways proceedings illustrated a legal vacuum which is yet to be addressed.
Prachi Pravasini, Sneh Kumkum Kaushik
Aug 276 min read
Blocking Statutes, Force Majeure and the Limits of Legislative Protection
The piece considers the principal limitations of blocking-statutes and the underlying assumptions. By examining the anti-sanctions statute through the lens of force majeure, this article exposes its limitations. Finally, it considers the broader framework that may be required if a blocking-statute is to provide meaningful protection rather than symbolic resistance.
Vatsal Golyan, Mayank Khichar
Aug 276 min read
The Legality of Automation: Analysing the Index-Linked Tariff Revision under Draft National Electricity Policy 2026
In this blog, the author investigates the sustainability of such automatic tariff revision mechanism, pointing legal and policy challenges it would face in materialising. Potential solution to the legal issues is discussed.
Aryan Chauhan, Ashish Chauhan
Aug 227 min read
The Civil Death of an Enterprise: Blacklisting, Proportionality, and the Constitutional Discipline of State Exclusion
Read narrowly, AKG Construction rescued one contractor. Read for the principle it carries, it restates that the State may choose whom to contract with, but it may not pronounce an enterprise’s civil death without the discipline the Constitution exacts.
Siddharth Dev Prasad
Aug 225 min read
When Insolvency Substitutes for Real Estate Regulation
The real question is not whether homebuyers belong within the IBC. It is why insolvency law has become the institution through which failures of real estate regulation are increasingly corrected, and how long a regulator can keep failing before the statute quietly covering for it is mistaken for the solution.
Aditya Gyawali
Aug 175 min read
The Stamp Duty Tug-Of-War: Can The Centre Override State Powers in SEZs?
When the Supreme Court settles the matter, it will have to choose between a better commercial incentive versus a fair federal principle.
Yatharth
Aug 166 min read
Personal Insolvency and Section 138 of NI Act: A Critical Examination of Dinesh Chand Surana
The reference in Surana presents an opportunity for the Supreme Court to reaffirm the underlying philosophy of personal insolvency law.
Md Muneeb Hussain
Aug 96 min read
The Sanctions Blind Spot: Why Contract Law Has No Answer
The Strait of Hormuz disruption raises a question that existing legal frameworks do not adequately answer: where performance is made unlawful by sanctions, can parties rely on force majeure clauses or the doctrine of frustration?
Supriya Kumari, Deependra Singh Rawat
Aug 86 min read
When Data Changes Hands: Implications of DPDPA in Business Transfer Agreements
The consent portability problem and the successor liability lacuna are not just peripheral inconsistencies; instead, they constitute structural gaps that must be corrected.
Dwaipayan Dey, Kushagra Keshav
Jul 306 min read
A Proceeding Divided Against Itself: The Bifurcation Holding in Dineshchand Surana and the Unresolved Fate of P Mohanraj
Until the three-judge bench rules, the operative position is Surana’s bifurcation, reached by a route the statute does not actually require.
Apeksha Kachhawaha, Kshitij Saruparia
Jul 196 min read
Subscriptions that Last Forever: How Data Protection Rules will Redefine Subscriber Agreements
Subscriptions are not forever and fiduciaries must rethink their subscriber agreements and offerings to keep up.
Kshitij Malhotra
Jun 286 min read
Guarantee or Mere Commercial Assurance? Impact on Recovery Process
Creditors and practitioners should take heed - when in doubt, draft guarantees clearly. Otherwise, as the ruling reflects, informal promises of support will not give creditors the “financial debt” status that they may seek under the Code.
Abdul Haseeb, Ayushi Yelimineti
Jun 67 min read
Acquisition Finance Amendments from the RBI: A Measured Shift
The continued exclusion of FOCCs, the rigid profitability and control thresholds, the ambiguity around “long-term strategic investment,” and the uncertainty surrounding InvIT structures and offshore exposure caps together narrow the practical scope of the reform.
Triya Ghosh
Jun 67 min read
Unguarded Secrets: The Case for a Dedicated Trade Secret Statute in India
There is a reasonable argument that India's courts have managed trade secret disputes adequately without a dedicated statute. However, "adequate" protection for well-resourced parties with carefully drafted NDAs is not the same as a reliable legal framework. MSMEs without the resources for patent registration, startups whose entire commercial value rests on a single process, and inventors without a contractual relationship with the party who misappropriates their idea are lef
Aryan Gupta
May 236 min read
How 2026 IT Rules Automate Censorship
The article is a critical analysis of how India’s 2026 IT Amendment Rules attempt to combat deepfakes by forcing platforms into automated censorship, inadvertently trading constitutionally protected content for regulatory speed.
Rishi Nookala
May 177 min read
What Counts as Property under the CIRP? The Spectrum Licence Conundrum
Court did not adequately discuss the provisions of the IBC to determine whether the spectrum license can be considered an asset and can be treated under the IBC.
Anushka Bhatt
May 26 min read
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