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Last verified: 2026-06-22 A business deal goes sour. Money changes hands, a promise isn’t kept, and the person who feels wronged does something that has become almost reflexive in India: instead of filing a civil suit to recover the money, they walk into a police station and ask for an FIR “under Section 420.” The […]

Last verified: 22 June 2026 The investigation had run for almost two months, and the file in front of the Magistrate still carried no charge sheet. On the morning of the sixtieth day, defence counsel walked into court with a one-page application and a surety waiting in the corridor outside. The application said one thing

Last verified: 22 June 2026 Picture a company secretary in late 2025 mapping a routine group reorganisation. A parent wants to absorb a subsidiary; two sister companies want to combine. The merits are obvious and nobody objects. Yet until September 2025, that fast-track merger route under Section 233 of the Companies Act, 2013 was a

Last verified: 19 June 2026 In October 2020 a Singapore-seated emergency arbitrator, sitting under the rules of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, ordered the Future group to halt its sale of retail assets to Reliance. Amazon had won an interim order in a matter of days. The problem was what came next. When Amazon tried

Last verified: 19 June 2026 Picture a final-year law student in early 2025. She has mapped out the next eighteen months to the week: clear the LLB, enrol with the State Bar Council, and sit the Civil Judge (Junior Division) examination the moment her state opens applications. No years of uncertain practice in between, no

Last verified: June 2026 Picture the last contract you sent back with changes. Both sides traded versions, argued over a few clauses, accepted some edits, rejected others, and signed a clean copy that everyone felt good about. Then a dispute landed eighteen months later, and a clause your team had fought hard to keep turned

Last verified: 19 June 2026 She finished her LLB in 2018, did eighteen months at a litigation chamber, and then stepped away in 2021 to raise her first child. By the time she thought about going back, the gap on her CV had grown to nearly four years, and every job ad seemed to want

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Last verified: 18 June 2026 On the morning of 1 July 2024, every police station in India woke up to a different rulebook. The Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act, the three statutes that had governed Indian criminal justice for over a century, stood replaced. In their place

Last verified: 18 June 2026 Picture a small shareholder in a listed company. She owns 400 shares she bought years ago, watches the stock occasionally, and otherwise leaves the company to its board. One morning she sees a notice in the newspaper: a new acquirer has signed a deal to buy a controlling stake from