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New Criminal Laws

Sexual harassment, modesty and the gender assumptions of criminal law

Should a core criminal law offence addressing sexual harassment continue to restrict victimhood to women alone?
Tryst with the Constitution: Swapnil Tripathi

Tryst with the Constitution: A visit to the mutt that gave us the Basic Structure doctrine

There is also something beautiful in the fact that a religious institution played such an instrumental role in the development of a doctrine whose basic features include secularism.
Arbitration

Arbitrating fraud: The serious fraud exception and its shrinking boundaries

Through successive case law, the “serious fraud” exception has been doctrinally distilled down to tests of consent and imperatives in the public domain.
Telegram

The Telegram ban order misses the tech-law nuance

Technology law goes wrong when legal categories are made to absorb technical categories they were not designed to regulate.
AI lawyer

India's AI companies have a data privacy problem and most don't know it yet

AI companies operating in India are currently overlooking three critical compliance gaps under the DPDP Act 2023.
For Judges Only

The judiciary on vacation

The common man’s anguish is not with the judges going on vacations, but with the judiciary being on vacation and suffering full or partial shutdowns.
Justice Tejas Karia

Spotlight: Delhi High Court Justice Tejas Karia

This past week, Justice Karia upheld Telegram's temporary ban, ordered takedown of fake news on judges and ministers and sat beyond usual court hours as a vacation judge.
Movie poster

Silencing the critic: Assault on creators' fundamental rights

What was originally intended as a legal tool to protect intellectual property and prevent piracy is now being used in ways that threaten freedom of expression and fair criticism.
Courtroom

Inside the two-pager: A practitioner’s synopsis

The art of drafting a Supreme Court synopsis ultimately lies in doing brutal thinking before you start writing and brutal editing after you are done.
Election

The voter's right to know: Obligation to disclose under amended Form 26

The voter's right to know under Article 19(1)(a) is not subject to restriction by the candidate's own assessment that the case against him is unmeritorious or politically motivated.
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