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THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA 106 Amendments
सत्यमेव जयते

THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA

Enacted 26 November 1949 • In Force 26 January 1950

PART III: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

"21. Protection of life and personal liberty.—No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law."

Official Gazette Scan • Page 1 of 395 Click to Expand
395 Articles • 12 Schedules Current Law
THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: EXTRAORDINARY Act No. 45 of 2023
BNS

BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA

Effective 1 July 2024 • Replaces Indian Penal Code, 1860

CHAPTER VI: OFFENCES AGAINST THE HUMAN BODY

"103. (1) Whoever commits murder shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine..."

Ministry of Law & Justice • Vol. LX Click to Expand
358 Sections • 20 Chapters Replaced IPC
THE GAZETTE OF INDIA: SEC. 1 Act No. 18 of 2013
MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

THE COMPANIES ACT, 2013

Incorporating CSR & Governance Amendments (2020-2025)

CHAPTER IX: ACCOUNTS OF COMPANIES

"135. Corporate Social Responsibility.—(1) Every company having net worth of rupees five hundred crore or more, or turnover of rupees one thousand crore..."

Corporate Statutory Series Click to Expand
470 Sections • 7 Schedules Current Code
CENTRAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Act No. 5 of 1908

CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE

With Commercial Courts Act, 2015 Amendments

PART I: SUITS IN GENERAL

"9. Courts to try all civil suits unless barred.—The Courts shall have jurisdiction to try all suits of a civil nature excepting suits of which their cognizance is either expressly or impliedly barred."

Sections + 51 Orders & Rules Click to Expand
158 Sections • Order 1 to 51 Standard Procedural
UNCITRAL MODEL LAW ADAPTATION Act No. 26 of 1996

ARBITRATION & CONCILIATION

Incorporating 2015, 2019 & 2021 Amendments

PART I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

"34. Application for setting aside arbitral award.—(1) Recourse to a Court against an arbitral award may be made only by an application for setting aside such award in accordance with sub-section (2)..."

International & Domestic Arbitrations Click to Expand
87 Sections • 8 Schedules Amended 2021
DIGITAL SIGNATURES & CYBER JURISDICTION Act No. 21 of 2000

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT

With DPDP Act, 2023 Consequential Amendments

CHAPTER XI: OFFENCES & INTERMEDIARY SAFE HARBOR

"79. Exemption from liability of intermediary in certain cases.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, an intermediary shall not be liable for any third party information..."

Intermediary Safe Harbor & Cyber Torts Click to Expand
94 Sections • Cyber Appellate DPDP Interfaced
Scholarly Dispatch & Case Notes

Articles, Critical Treatises & Case Analyses

Rigorous jurisprudence authored by Senior Advocates, Academic Scholars, and Constitutional Practitioners.

Constitutional Law 9 min read

Proportionality Standards Post-Puttaswamy: The Standard of Least Restrictive Measure

Evaluating how High Courts and Constitutional Benches apply the four-pronged Bilchitz proportionality test when scrutinizing surveillance and preventive detention orders against fundamental freedoms.

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Aparna Mukerjee

Advocate-on-Record, SC

Criminal Jurisprudence 11 min read

Deconstructing Section 111 BNS: Organized Crime Thresholds and Constitutional Due Process

A critical dissecting of the new syndicated crime provisions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, comparing the codification with Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) standards.

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Kabir Sethi

Criminal Defense Jurist, Delhi

Arbitration & Dispute Res. 7 min read

Group of Companies Doctrine: Navigating the Cox & Kings Constitutional Bench Dictum

How the 5-Judge Constitution Bench reshaped the binding nature of arbitration agreements upon non-signatory corporate affiliates under Section 7 of the 1996 Act.

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RJ

Rohini Jaipal

Partner, Commercial Disputes

Corporate & IBC 10 min read

Director Liability for Algorithmic Non-Compliance under Section 166 of Companies Act

Fiduciary duties in the era of automated enterprise governance. When does the delegation of core risk management to black-box systems constitute a breach of reasonable care?

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Tanya Lalwani

LL.M. (Harvard), Corp. Governance

Constitutional Law 13 min read

The Doctrine of Basic Structure at 53: Federalism as an Unalterable Core

Revisiting Kesavananda Bharati in an era of centralized fiscal mechanisms and Governors' assent timelines under Article 200 of the Constitution.

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Justice (Retd.) M. Nariman

Former Judge, High Court

IPR & Tech Regulation 8 min read

Copyrightability of Machine-Synthesized Works: An Indian Patent & Copyright Stance

Analyzing Section 2(d)(vi) of the Copyright Act, 1957. Does the legal fiction attributing authorship to 'the person who causes the work to be created' encompass generative prompt engineers?

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Shreya Kulkarni

Counsel, IP & Technology

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