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A head of department at a university in Goa was dismissed from service after an Internal Committee found sexual-harassment allegations against him proved. On paper, the system had worked. A complaint was made, a committee inquired, a finding was returned, and the employer acted. Except the committee had rushed. It ran the inquiry in a […]

Last verified: 2026-07-06 On 2 July 2026, the Supreme Court of India did something that should make every advocate who has ever pasted a legal question into ChatGPT sit up. Hearing an insolvency matter, a bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe found that the National Company Law Tribunal and the appellate tribunal had

Last verified: July 2026 A district court in Nagpur convicts a man of cheating on a Thursday and sentences him to four years. His family is stunned; his lawyer says the evidence was thin and the judgment ignored half the defence witnesses. Everyone in the room understands, in a vague way, that “we can appeal.”

Last verified: July 2026 A postgraduate student at a private “deemed-to-be” university is expelled three weeks before her final placements. The charge is an alleged exam-hall violation. She says no one gave her a hearing, no committee heard her side, and the order simply appeared on the notice board. She wants it quashed. Her lawyer

Last verified: July 2026 Two friends, a caterer and a baker, pooled their savings and started a food business out of a rented kitchen. They signed a one-page “partnership deed” the baker had downloaded and filled in by hand, split everything fifty-fifty in conversation, and got to work. For three years it ran beautifully. Then

Last verified: July 3, 2026 On 26 May 2026, the rules of corporate rescue in India shifted more than they had in almost a decade. That was the day most of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act, 2026 came into force, and with it a creditor-led resolution route, a 14-day deadline for tribunals to

Last verified: July 2026 Picture the week your LLB results come out. Five years (or three) of moot courts, viva voces and internship all-nighters are finally behind you. You collect your provisional enrolment from the State Bar Council, you get your black coat stitched, and then a senior tells you the part nobody dwells on

In October 2020, a single interim order stalled one of the largest retail deals India had ever seen. A year earlier, a global e-commerce group had invested in a Future Group company. When Future agreed to sell its retail business to a rival conglomerate, the investor did not run to a civil court. It rushed

Last verified: July 2026 Two founders sit across a table from their chartered accountant on the same afternoon, both asking the same question: LLP or private limited company? The first runs a two-person design studio. It bills clients, keeps its costs low, and has no intention of ever taking outside money. The second is building

India records one of the highest absolute suicide counts in the world. According to the National Crime Records Bureau’s Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India (ADSI) 2023 report, 1,71,418 people died by suicide in 2023 — a rate of 12.3 per lakh of population. Behind a share of those deaths lies a criminal-law question the