Yash Rahul Kalbhor, BBA. LL.B. (Hons), MIT-WPU School of Law Research Intern (CCSFI), Centre for Crime Sciences and Forensic Intelligence ABSTRACT Counterfeit enforcement is often dominated by seizure-led and authenticity- focused responses that identify fake goods without disrupting the production and distribution systems behind them. This article develops a forensic- intelligence framework for moving from counterfeit detection to network attribution. Drawing on forensic tra

Anshu, Lloyd Law College “Bail is the rule and Jail, the exception.” — Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer ABSTRACT Is the routine denial of bail to an accused person legally and constitutionally sustainable? Under what precise, objective criteria can pre-trial incarceration be justified? Do existing bail mechanisms operate equitably across all socioeconomic strata, or do they perpetuate a system where social, economic, and political status dictate custodial outcomes? Crucially, how ca

Dr. Shreemanshu Kumar Dash and Sanyukta Kumari ABSTRACT Capital punishment in India, though constitutionally upheld under the rarest of rare doctrine, continues to evoke profound constitutional, ethical, and humanitarian debate concerning its necessity, proportionality, and irreversible consequences. This paper advances a novel legal proposition by examining the feasibility of compulsory or voluntary post-mortem harvesting of transplantable organs from death-row convicts whos

Anil Kumar, B.Sc., LL.M. (HRDE), Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India ABSTRACT The possession of an Indian passport is often misunderstood as conclusive proof of Indian citizenship. However, under Indian law, a passport is primarily a travel document issued under the Passports Act, 1967, whereas citizenship is determined by the Constitution of India and the Citizenship Act, 1955. A passport serves as evidence of identity and nationali

Adv Abhirami P, LLM Commercial Law, Bharata Mata School of Legal Studies, Choondy, Aluva ABSTRACT India's accession to the World Trade Organization in 1995 marked a decisive turning point in the regulation of its foreign trade, extending a rules-based multilateral discipline into domains previously governed by discretionary licensing and quantitative controls. This article examines how the WTO's core agreements GATT 1994, the Agreement on Agriculture, TRIPS, GATS, the SPS and

Mr. Omkar Mahapatra, PhD Scholar, KIIT School of Law, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha Ms. Angelina Bernard, Advocate, Calcutta High Court, Kolkata ABSTRACT The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) was conceptualised with one major objective: to balance the interests of right-holders with broader public welfare, particularly in developing and least-developed countries. TRIPS includes flexibilities like compulsory licensing, parallel i

Dr. Tamanna Bansal, Associate-Legal, Centre for WTO Studies, under Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India ABSTRACT The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2026 (Act No. 6 of 2026), which received the assent of the President of India on 6 April 2026, marks the most extensive legislative overhaul of India's insolvency framework since the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) itself came into force. Enacted a decade after the original Code, the A

Naimisa Madduri, NALSAR University in collaboration with IICA 1.1 Introduction Post covid era came as a financially volatile period for not only the public in general but also the big corporate players in the markets. The year 2022 witnessed several high-profile mergers including the takeover of twitter by Elon Musk, merger between Air India and Vistara, merger between PVR cinemas and INOX and the very favourite merger between Zomato and Blinkit. While a lot of these mergers

Neeraj Kumar, Department of Law, Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Mullana, Ambala, Haryana ABSTRACT Geographical Indications (GIs) are a significant category of intellectual property which guarantees products whose quality, reputation, or features are inseparably associated with a place of origin. The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999, came to be enacted in India to protect traditional products, generate rural developm

Dr. Manpreet Kaur, Assistant Professor of Law, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. Ms. Bhavya Rai, B.A.L.L.B (Hons.), Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. ABSTRACT The modern AI era is shaped by a central paradox, that while digital technologies empower nations to strengthen their digital sovereignty and reinforce intellectual property protections, these same legal frameworks can hinder global equity and restrict the realization of fundamental human r

Gunjan Grover, Chirayu Sharma & Sufiyan Abbasi, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University ABSTRACT The concept of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) has rapidly transformed corporate law and practice in India. This article examines India’s evolving ESG regulatory framework and identifies critical gaps. Drawing on primary sources – from the Companies Act 2013 (CSR provisions) to recent SEBI and MCA regulations – zqand authoritative scholarship, it analyzes how India has tri

Shoaib Khan Afghan, BBA LL.B. (Hons), REVA University, School of Legal Studies, Bengaluru, Intern at Legal Aid Trust ABSTRACT The Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 is one of the oldest laws in India dealing with guardianship and child custody. It was enacted during British rule to provide a legal framework for appointing guardians for minors and protecting their interests. Although the Act has remained in force for more than a century, Indian society has changed a great deal. Fam

Dr. Priyadarshi Nagda, Assistant Professor, University College of Law, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur Zibran Khan Pathan, Research Scholar, University College of Law, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. ABSTRACT Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has quietly upended the assumptions on which criminal evidence law was built. Systems capable of producing convincing synthetic audio, video, still images and written documents grouped here under the umbrella term "

Shafa Lilothia, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, Global College of Law ABSTRACT Sexual assault complainants who testify in adult criminal courts frequently describe the trial process itself, and cross-examination in particular, as more distressing than the original offense, a phenomenon researchers term secondary victimization. This paper offers a narrative review and conceptual analysis of trauma-informed judicial training as a strategy for reducing seco

Somya Singh, Advocate, Delhi High Court Citation: 2025 INSC 1333 | Special Reference No 1 of 2025 Court: Constitution Bench, Supreme Court of India Bench: CJI B.R. Gavai, JJ Surya Kant, Vikram Nath, P.S. Narasimha, A.S. Chandurkar Decided: 20 November 2025 I. INTRODUCTION When President Droupadi Murmu invoked Article 143 of the Constitution in May 2025 to seek the Supreme Court's advisory opinion on the powers of Governors and the President in relation to State Bills, she did

Jheel Nagori, Institute of Law, Nirma University ABSTRACT Relationship between technology and crime has undergone a = transformation during the era of digitalization. In addition to being used for discussion and reporting of crime, social media has made it possible for a criminal milieu to exist, whereby crime can be planned, organized and facilitated. Information available through social media has impacted victim selection, encryption has impacted planning of crimes, artific

Anjali, Department of Law, Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University), Mullana, Ambala, Haryana, India Akanksha, Department of Law, M.M.H. College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India ABSTRACT The suddenly growing digital technologies have had a major effect on the way children obtain access to education, communication and socialization and at the same time have afflicted them with unfamiliar digitally based forms of abuse and exploitation. Online Child Sexual Exploitation

Rudra Prasad Rimal, LLM (Criminal Law), Faculty of Law, ICFAI University, Gangtok, Sikkim. ABSTRACT The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA) introduced an elevated standard for the admissibility of secondary electronic evidence. Section 63(4) read with the Schedule of the BSA, requires the litigants to submit a Part A certificate disclosing the cryptographic hash value and Part B certificate requires expert certification. The Supreme Court in Pune Bar Association v. Union

Aditya Sarkar, B.A. LL.B. (Hons), Bennett University, School of Law ABSTRACT The change in juvenile justice regime in post-Nirbhaya India is one of the most controversial changes in the modern constitutional criminal jurisprudence. The introduction of the preliminary assessment process in Section 15 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015 represents a move away from the age-centered approach to juvenile responsibility and a new approach based on dev

Y Jivith Vasumaan, BBA LLB, PES University ABSTRACT Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 was introduced to address situations where consent to sexual intercourse is obtained through certain forms of deceit. Although the provision covers different kinds of deception, such as false promises of employment, promotion, marriage, or concealment of identity, discussions surrounding the section have largely focused on cases involving false promises of marriage. As a result