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Cyber space has certain distinct features like anonymity which make it a very dangerous arena. However, this sense of anonymity is not really true as every person and activity on the internet can be traced, but a layman does not have the knowledge to take recourse to the same when he is a victim of a cyber crime.  ..

This is not to sound racist and must be taken in the right spirit of mistaken identity.   We always used to say that all the Chinese look alike, which is that it would be difficult to tell one apart from the other. But then, of course, it was an exaggeration. p style="text-..

With the advent of social media, there have been innumerable instances of cyber defamation. It has definitely become very easy to defame anyone as cyber space has no territorial boundaries and has a very vast reach.   Defamation is defines as any intentional fa..

A host of petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of SARFAESI ACT under Section 2(1) (o) of the said Act which is posted for argument soon after the contradicting judgments in the Madras High Court and Gujarat High Court.   Section 2..

Gifting. Getting. Buying. Selling.  All in a day’s work. Or so we think.  We need to think again.   There is a saying in law, “Caveat Emptor”. It means, “Let the buyer beware”. The onus of a bad purchase is on the buyer, not the s..

Online banking revolutionized banking transactions, whereby money could be transferred at a single click. It has been a time saver and has been an extremely convenient method to undertake commercial transactions. However, it has lead to a slew of litigation against banks. With online banking came phishing emails. p style="text-alig..

Abstract: In this age of non communicable diseases, communicable diseases still contribute 30% of disease burden in India. Hundreds of epidemics occur each year and we fail to respond and contain most of them. Apart from various biological and behavioural public health interventions, we need to closely look at the structural intervention, th..

The Internet has had a massive impact on many areas of personal and professional life. Defamation laws and libel lawsuits are one such area and many individuals, businesses, and website owners have fallen foul of the belief that t..

Divorce is definitely a painful process. A relationship that begins with affection at the altar ends with negative emotions in a court room. Divorces are of two kinds- Mutual consent divorce and Contested divorces. Mutual consent divorce is one where the parties agree upon the terms of separation and amicably end the marriage; and Contested div..

Nahalchnad Laloochand Private Limited Vs. Panchali Co-operative Housing Society is a story of greed and excesses. Twenty five stilt car parking spaces in a building were sold by the builder to rank outsiders. Flats purchasers in the building eventually formed a society; and started obstructing the use of these parking spaces by the outsiders. Finally, the builder..

A case for prosecuting the prosecutors   Regular readers of Moneylife, and others, will recall an article called “Who Will Guard the Guardians?” “Quis custodiet ipsos custodies.” In that piece, we had mentioned that a public prosecutor, though convinced that the complaint filed against our clients was false, w..

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Almost 13 years have passed after the enactment of Information Technology Act 2000, but the Indian Legislature, Supreme Court and High Courts have yet to keep pace with the Advances in Information Technology (IT), e-Governance, digitisation of Court-processes etc, in that:- p style="text-align: ..

Letting out premises is a sensitive issue. Both landlords and tenants turn hawkish in any discussion on this. The battle of owners versus occupiers would turn less hostile if each understood their limits, claiming only that which is rightfully theirs. There can be roughly three kinds of occupation – statutory tenant, lessee and licensee. Described below are..

Magistrates have tremendous power without concurrent supervision and without visible accountability. There is an uncanny similarity in the work of an airlines pilot, a doctor and a magistrate, but the similarity limits to professional nature of the work concerned, that is, their action if done negligently can play havoc with the..