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Jigyasa Verma, University of Allahabad ABSTRACT Indian Constitution’s deliberately broad, open‐textured language has enabled the Supreme Court to act as a dynamic interpreter rather than a mechanical umpire, progressively expanding and concretising fundamental rights and structural principles. On this basis, the Court has read Article 21 to include a wide cluster of dignity‐enhancing rights—such …

Sanidhya Kashyap, Advocate & Independent Legal Researcher, Ranchi, India. Prerna Lakra, Advocate & Independent Legal Researcher, Ranchi, India ABSTRACT Bail under the juvenile justice framework in India operates on a fundamentally different footing from bail in the ordinary criminal justice system. Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 adopts a sta…

Preeti, LLM, Amity University, Gurugram ABSTRACT However, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way personal data is collected, inferred, aggregated and reused, which is threatening fundamental data protection and privacy principles and calls for a re-thinking of the Indian Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) regime. The objective of this study was to understand the correlation between…

Kanta Krishna, B.A. LL.B., NMIMS Kiri P. Mehta School of Law Tanvi Mehta, B.A LL.B., NMIMS Kiri P. Mehta School of Law ABSTRACT Antitrust laws and intellectual property rights have often been perceived as conflicting, due to their opposing objectives. On one hand, antitrust laws aim to limit concentration of economic power and foster fair competition. Whereas, IPR laws grant exclusivity to furthe…

Chhavi Jain, Research Scholar, ILSR, Mangalayatan University, Aligarh Prof. (Dr.) Rekha Supervisor, ILSR, Mangalayatan University, Aligarh ABSTRACT Compulsory licensing is an useful legal mechanism that allows a government to permit a third party to use or manufacture a patented product without the permission of the patentee. In the pharmaceutical sector, compulsory licensing can help in reducing…

Kritika Bhalla, Ideal Institute of Management and Technology (GGSIPU) ABSTRACT The phenomenon popularly termed ‘digital arrest’ a species of cyber-enabled extortion in which fraudsters impersonate law-enforcement or judicial authorities over video calls to coerce victims into transferring money under threat of confinement has emerged as one of the most significant criminal- justice challenges of …

Osia Varghese, REVA University, Bangalore ABSTRACT The pendency of cases in the Indian courts seriously affected the delivery of justice. When the mainstream court system faced bottlenecks in timely adjudication, the idea of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) was emphasised and entertained. ADR is the settlement of disputes through dispute resolution channels that are outside the court. Such me…

Simran Sethi, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Dwarka. ABSTRACT Corporate governance and corporate finance serve as the cornerstones for the overall functioning and growth of companies particularly within the emerging markets like India. The Companies Act, 2013 bought significant reform in India’s legal framework governing corporate entities in India. The paper analyses the efficacy of …

Saveri Sourabh Sharma, NMIMS Kirit P. Mehta School of Law, Mumbai (2021-2026) ABSTRACT The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 replaced a decade of tiered, mirror-and-localise proposals with a single negative-list rule: personal data may leave India freely unless the Central Government names a destination as restricted. Read on its own, Section 16 looks like liberalisation. Read against th…

Dr. (Prof.) Varinder Kumar Kaushik, Professor (Retired), Punjabi University, Patiala Dhruv Kaushik, Advocate, Delhi High Court “The constitutional lawyer, however, must always, if he is to comprehend his subject and treat it fruitfully, be a historian as well as a lawyer” – James Bryce I. BRYCE, SMITH, CONTRADICTIONS AND CONNECTIONS The idea of ‘India’ that we are familiar with today did not exis…

Hasti Panchmatiya, BBA LLB (Hons.) MIT WPU School of Law Research Intern, Centre for Crime Sciences and Forensics Intelligence ABSTRACT Behavioural interpretation is increasingly relevant to criminal investigation, particularly in relation to deception, verbal behaviour, moral justification, interrogation and decision-making. The difficulty is not that behaviour has no investigative value, but th…

Asst. Prof. K. Panneerselvam, Government Law College, Vellore ABSTRACT The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of producing text, images, music, and code has destabilized the foundational assumptions of copyright law, which has historically presumed a human author as the source of original expression. This paper critically examines the authorship and ownership pro…

Aathi Thiruvaranga Pandiyan, The Central Law College, Salem ABSTRACT The rapid, largely unregulated expansion of synthetic athletic surfaces across schools, colleges, municipal grounds, and professional stadia has generated a contested but increasingly urgent public health question: does prolonged contact with artificial turf, and in particular its crumb-rubber infill, expose players to carcinoge…

Dr. Mousumi Kalita, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, ICFAI University, Tripura Mr. Akash Majumder, LL.B., Faculty of Law, ICFAI University, Tripura ABSTRACT An act of cyberterrorism involves using the internet and other forms of information and communication technology to threaten or cause bodily harm to gain political or ideological power through threat or intimidation. Data theft, data mani…

Hana Shaikh, LL.M. (Criminal law), Crescent School of Law, B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, TN ABSTRACT In the administration of criminal justice, witnesses play a crucial role since their evidence often helps courts resolve contentious factual issues and reach fair decisions. However, witnesses may be prevented from freely and honestly testifying by pressure, threa…

Ruth Lalrinliani, Research Scholar, University School of Law and Research, University of Science & Technology, Meghalaya Dr. Mridula Devi, Associate Professor, University School of Law and Research, University of Science & Technology, Meghalaya ABSTRACT Cyber crime which is a crime committed by the use of computer or computer devices become one of the most common crimes all over the world…

Guruprasad C V, Saraswathi Law College ABSTRACT: Current criminal jurisprudence exists in a state of experiencing tension between the social instinct for punitive retribution and the constitutional thought of human dignified life. This research paper examines the conceptual, philosophical, and legal dilemmas and play between the "retributive mind” that is the demand that moral wrongdoing incur a …

Shelly, MERI Professional and Law Institute Pankaj Bansal v. Union of India, 2023 SCC OnLine SC 1244 (Supreme Court of India, decided on 3 October 2023). ABSTRACT The power of arrest under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) raises significant concerns concerning individual liberty and procedural fairness. The Supreme Court’s decision in Pankaj Bansal v. Union of India, 2023 SCC O…

Ekta Saini, Jamia Hamdard Dr Shariqa Mehmood, Jamia Hamdard ABSTRACT The idea of something being original is really important when it comes to copyright law. It is the reason why some things get protected and others do not. Even though it is so important the word "originality" is not clearly defined in the Copyright Act of 1957. This means that it is up to the courts to decide what it means. This…

Ayush Agrawal, Rishabh Sisodiya & Sanya Daryani* ABSTRACT The Lokpal, India's apex anti-corruption ombudsman, was conceived as the institutional answer to a decades-old constitutional lacuna: the absence of an independent authority empowered to scrutinise the probity of the political executive and higher bureaucracy. Enacted in the wake of the 2011 civil- society mobilisation led by Anna Haza…