By Rohin Goyal On 20th June 2019, one of India’s pioneer airlines which used to be “THE” airline in India, officially began the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process [“CIRP”] by order of the National Company Law Tribunal [“NCLT”], Mumbai [1]. Soon after, similar proceedings were initiated in Amsterdam as well [2]. Jet Airways has been plagued […]
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By Akshat Bhushan Introduction In India, there are twenty states and two union territories that have enacted anti-beggary laws, criminalising the act of begging.[1] A 2018 Delhi High Court order struck down certain provisions of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 (that was extended to the union territory of Delhi) which criminalised involuntary begging […]
By Vikram Chandrasekhar Introduction India, as an apt example, has been a country which since the dawn of the Vedic liturgical tradition has accepted and harmonized with the notions of gender fluidity and queerness centuries before the Western world had even attempted to reconcile with these terms.[1] The crux of the gender inequality crisis, denial […]
By Anmol Ratan John F. Kennedy in his 1961 inaugural speech said, “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hands of God”[1]. It is this presumption about the metaphysical origin of human rights that makes it problematic for this internationally recognised regime of law to claim absolute […]
By Shivangi Pandia and Prateek Charan Background The word company has no technical meaning attached to it. It simply means a group of individuals who have come together for a common goal. The individuals may associate themselves either for an economic or for a non-economic cause. Chief Justice Marshall defines company to mean that a […]
By Simran Kaur India’s constitutional mandate on its cherished promise of free speech has withstood several upheavals of time. The jurisprudence spanned over seven decades has been interpreted in the light of the principles of a democratic political society. The underlying basis of this entails exercising the fundamental right to free speech as a citizen, […]
By Prakhar Raghuvanshi The Internet is a unique medium of expression and deserves a different standard of protection than other media. Any organization which facilitates transactions between third party over the internet is an internet intermediary.1 It primarily gives access to the host and transmits the content originated from third parties. It does not create […]
By Ranu Tiwari The Background The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance 2018 has brought home buyers under the ambit of ‘financial creditors’. The Insolvency Law Committee (March 2018) concluded that the current definition of ‘financial debt’ is sufficient to include the amounts raised from home buyers/allottees under a real estate project, and hence, they […]
By Tanvi Prabhu and Saumya Agarwal In Committee of Creditors of Essar Steel India Limited v. Satish Kumar Gupta &Ors, the Supreme Court on 15th November, 2019 dismissed the NCLAT order and upheld the approved Resolution Plan of ArcelorMittal in a joint venture with Japan’s Nippon Steel. It includes a payment of Rs. 42,000 cr. […]
By Falguni Gupta Introduction The E-commerce sector has become a favorite of both sellers and consumers in a short span of time. Recently, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion introduced certain changes in the FDI Policy permitting 100% FDI under the automatic route, making it applicable to the e-commerce entities[1]. An aggregator model of […]
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