Adv. Harjeet Singh

Last verified: July 2026 Two men meet in a parked car and agree to rob a bank the following week. They buy no gun, case no branch, and touch no cash. On the law of most ordinary crimes, nothing punishable has happened yet: there is no theft, no hurt, no trespass. Criminal conspiracy is the […]

Last verified: July 2026 A shopkeeper in Kanpur is charged with a first-time offence that carries a maximum of three years in prison. His lawyer is honest with him: the trial will grind on for four or five years, he will lose days of work for every hearing, and even a decent chance of acquittal

Last verified: July 2026 At 12:10 a.m. on 1 July 2024, a constable on the late-night beat in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, lifted his pen and registered an FIR for a motorcycle theft under Section 303(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. Ten minutes earlier, the same offence would have travelled through the system as IPC

A third-year student at a national law university sits across from a recruiter at a Bengaluru contract-automation company. She expected questions about the Indian Contract Act. Instead she’s asked how she’d map a 40-clause master services agreement into reusable templates, what she’d automate first, and whether she can read a simple workflow diagram. She has

Last verified: 8 July 2026 On her wedding night, a young bride from Kerala handed over 89 gold sovereigns: a lifetime of her family’s savings, worked into the ornaments she wore to the mandap. Her husband took them “for safekeeping” and passed the lot to his mother. Within a few years the sovereigns were gone,

Last verified: July 2026 A marketing manager in Bengaluru, pregnant with her first child, is told by her startup’s HR that the company is “too small” for maternity leave and that, in any case, she has not been on the rolls long enough. A government schoolteacher, expecting her third child after remarriage, has her leave

Last verified: July 2026 In May 2017, an arbitral tribunal handed the operator of the Delhi Airport Metro line an award worth roughly Rs 2,800 crore against the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. With interest, the figure climbed towards Rs 8,000 crore over the years that followed. The Delhi Metro challenged it under Section 34 of

Last verified: July 2026 Two companies sign a supply contract worth eight crore rupees. Eighteen months in, the buyer stops paying, the seller stops shipping, and each blames the other. Neither wants to spend the next six years in a civil court watching the file gather dust. So they reach for a single clause buried

Every murder case in India is really two cases stacked on top of each other. The first is about the killing: did this death amount to murder under Section 101 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, or only to culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 105? The gap between those two answers is

Last verified: July 2026 Two people walk into the same police station on the same morning, and both are there because of the same three digits: 498A. The first is a woman who has spent two years being told she is worthless because her father could not add a car to the dowry, who has