A common misconception exists that electoral candidates have absolute freedom over the content of their speeches. The election season in India has candidates across political parties, making passionate speeches to convince the voters to choose them o ..
What purpose the prosecution would achieve by sending an accused in custody is an important point to be considered. Simply because an individual is alleged to have been involved in some serious crime, does not necessarily justify accused to be send ..
Companies around the world scrambled to try and meet a RBI-mandated deadline to store Indian users’ financial data in India, reigniting conversation about “data localisation”. Across ministries and sectors, the government has firmed ..
It has been a long and gruelling wait for Lokpal to finally come in place as an anti-graft body. On March 19, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh who is a former Supreme Court Judge and former Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court who retired in May ..
It would be imperative to mention right at the outset that in a significant pronouncement, the Supreme Court just recently on March 15, 2019 in Sugreev Kumar v. State of Punjab & Ors in Criminal Appeal No. 509 of 2019 (Arising out of SLP (Cri. ..
All of us aware that Arbitrators have powers to grant pre-reference, Pendent lite and Post award interest to the awarded sum. But one of the challenges faced by the Arbitrators is the awarding of appropriate and legally sustainable pre- award, post a ..
It is most heartening to learn that in a latest, landmark and laudable judgment titled S. Sreesanth v. The Board Of Control For Cricket In India & Ors in Civil Appeal No. 2424 of 2019 (arising out of SLP (C) No. 3551 of 2018) delivered on Marc ..
OverviewWhile most of the preliminary tax litigation in India is centred around the ITATs, the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) also plays in important role in resolving tax issues before they get a chance to hit proper litigation. It is an indepe ..
THE BASIC PREMISE OF INTERNATIONAL LAWWhen Mr. Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State of the United States of America expresses hope that India will not buy oil from Venezuela, in diplomatic terms the ‘hope’ has to be understood as ‘wa ..
Coming straight to the nub of the matter, while commuting the death sentence awarded to a man who was convicted for the rape and murder of a five year old girl, the Supreme Court recently in a latest, landmark and laudable judgment titled Sachin Ku ..