Varshita A, BA LLB, MKPM RV Institute of Legal Studies ABSTRACT The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 ("BSA") replaced the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 with effect from 1 July 2024, and in doing so modernised the statutory treatment of electronic records through Sections 61 to 63. These provisions were, however, drafted against the backdrop of conventional electronic evidence such as emails, call records and CCTV footage, and not against a landscape increasingly populated by gen

Dr. Mehkarkar Gajanan Sonappa, Professor, K.B.C.N.M.U. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Memorial Law College, Dhule. Aishwarya Pramod Athawale, Research Scholar, K.B.C.N.M.U. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Memorial Law College, Dhule. ABSTRACT The Right to Education (RTE) in India symbolizes a pivotal constitutional pledge to accessible, fair, and high-quality primary education. Nonetheless, even with a strong legal framework, notable differences continue to exist among states regarding access

Suzanne Sircar, O.P Jindal Global University ABSTRACT The emergence of real estate insolvency is one of the most significant challenges in India’s insolvency system. In real estate insolvency, the list of stakeholders is much more varied than in corporate insolvency, with often results in conflicting interests. While financial institutions are primarily interested in recovering their debts, on the other hand, homebuyers are particularly concerned about gaining possession of p

Nihal Kumar, Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India ABSTRACT The Olympic Games in the developing economies have become a complicated game of national pride, international show and in most cases unrealized human implications. The paper explores the so-called whitewashed legacies, whereby the outline of progress and development in which the Games are embedded dominates over the displacement, exclusion, and exploitation of vulnerable groups. It is

Trisha Menon, Shiv Nadar University, School of law I. Introduction Section 54 of the Indian Evidence Act 1872 excludes the accused's prior convictions from the guilt stage of a criminal trial. Section 14 of the same Act permits their admission where they are relevant to motive, intention, or knowledge. Both provisions operate simultaneously, and neither takes precedence over the other. This tension has never been resolved. The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023 reproduces the s

Trisha Menon, Shiv Nadar University, School of Law When NDTV broadcast hidden-camera footage in May 2007 showing senior defence advocate R.K. Anand and Special Public Prosecutor I.U. Khan apparently negotiating with a witness in the BMW hit-and-run trial, the Delhi High Court took suo motu cognizance and convicted both for criminal contempt. The Supreme Court affirmed Anand’s conviction while acquitting Khan. The result was defensible; the reasoning was not. This essay argues

Vandita Ventrapati, B.A. LL.B. (Hons), Woxsen University ABSTRACT Influencer marketing has become one of the most commercially significant forms of advertising in India, and one of the least legally resolved. Creators promote products across sectors skincare, health supplements, financial services, betting platforms in a format that looks personal but functions as paid commercial communication. India has regulatory instruments to address this: the Consumer Protection Act, 201

Animesh Singh, Assistant Professor, Law, Babu Banarasi Das University ABSTRACT Hate crimes in India have intensified alongside communal polarisation, digitally accelerated misinformation, and the normalisation of identity-based rhetoric in public life. Existing scholarship examines this phenomenon predominantly through constitutional, criminological, or sociological lenses, leaving the psychological mechanisms that convert prejudice into criminal violence comparatively unexam

Animesh Singh, Assistant Professor, Law, Babu Banarasi Das University ABSTRACT Criminal justice systems are shifting from a reactive model, which punishes conduct already committed, toward a preventive model, which restrains liberty on the basis of anticipated future conduct. This shift is visible in clinical and actuarial risk assessment, in AI-assisted predictive policing and algorithmic sentencing tools, and in long-standing preventive detention regimes. This paper asks wh

Abed Husen Sayyad, Symbiosis Law School, Pune, Symbiosis International (Deemed University) ABSTRACT The growing incidence of “digital arrest” and related types of cyber-enabled financial fraud have revealed a structural gap in India's post-2024 criminal law system: the “join” of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (“BNS”) and the Information Technology Act, 2000 (“IT Act”). In this paper, the current state of that coexistence is analysed from the doctrinal and policy perspectiv

Manika Reddy, B.A. LL.B. (H.), Symbiosis Law School, Pune ABSTRACT The proliferation of “finfluencers”, social media personalities who disseminate financial content to lay audiences, has disrupted the traditional, licence-based architecture of Indian securities regulation. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) has, since 2023, moved from isolated enforcement actions to a structured regulatory response, culminating in the October 2024 circular restricting associa

Sheesh Ali & Dr. Shariqa Mehmood ABSTRACT Something called Geographical Indications now matters a lot in how we protect what people make. These labels guard items whose character or fame comes directly from where they’re made. Take Darjeeling tea or Banarasi silk - what makes them stand out ties back to location. Laws in India handle this through a specific act formed in 1999. That law came about because of global trade rules linked to the WTO’s agreement on copyrights and pa

Ritika Torgal, Lords Universal College of Law I. ABSTRACT Reaction videos' rise to prominence as a type of user-generated content has revolutionised digital media by allowing producers to interact with copyrighted works through entertainment, analysis, criticism, and commentary. Such content encourages audience participation and innovation, but it also poses difficult legal issues with regard to copyright infringement and transformative use. By examining the rights of copyrig

Shivam Kumar Mishra, PGDIPR, National Law School of India University ABSTRACT The rapid proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has precipitated a profound structural crisis within global intellectual property regimes. AI models, capable of producing sophisticated literary, artistic, and musical works with minimal human prompting, have triggered unprecedented legal and philosophical inquiries regarding authorship, ownership, and the fundamental nature of c

Ms. Shamayeeta Dey, LLM (Human Rights), AIALS, Amity University, Noida. Uttar Pradesh. ABSTRACT This essay examines the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA), as amended in 2019, against the Johannesburg Principles on National Security, Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, a 1995 framework endorsed by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression. It argues that three features of the UAPA: the open-textured definition of “unlawful acti

Shweta Chowdhery, Doctoral Fellow, University School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Dwarka, Delhi. ABSTRACT Consent-Filtered Multilateralism and the Transformation of Global Economic Law looks at the way states interact with international economic law by not committing or rejecting legal obligations but by selectively accepting them. The idea of Consent-Filtered Multilateralism describes a systematic procedure by which states assess inter

Prarthana Ramesh, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas The intersection of insolvency law and anti-money laundering legislation in India has given rise to significant jurisprudential debate, particularly concerning the relationship between the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA). Both statutes occupy critical positions within India’s legal framework, yet their concurrent application often creates friction that affects the

Tanveen Kaur, National Law University, Jodhpur Introduction Urban expansion has altered the flood risk profile for many locations, and more than two-thirds of the urban population is at risk. India has many cities along the coast and in the flood plains of major rivers. As urbanization increases impermeability, areas with previously low flood risk are experiencing flooding. For example, cities in the upper parts of watersheds, such as Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Indore. Pluvial

Divya Singh, Ph.D. Research Scholar, Faculty of Law, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Deo Pratap Singh, Ph.D. Research Scholar, History Department, Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed decision-making across various sectors creating unprecedented opportunities for efficiency while simultaneously raising complex legal and human rights concerns affecting equality, privacy, dignity

Anant Srivastava, Founder and Lead Policy Analyst, Development Policy Lab INDIA (DPLI), New Delhi ABSTRACT Since 2014, India has done something that does not fit neatly into how scholars usually describe emerging power behaviour toward multilateral institutions. It has kept deepening a borrowing relationship with the World Bank that goes back to 1948, while at the same time building two entirely new relationships, as a founding member of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Inv