Legal Insights

Last verified: 2026-06-18 Two engineers leave their jobs to build a product. They split the equity 50-50 over coffee, shake hands, and start shipping code. No paper. Eighteen months later one of them wants out, takes half the cap table with him, and the company that raised its first cheque on the strength of “the […]

Last verified: 2026-06-16 A power company and a contractor fell out over an unpaid bill. Their contract had an arbitration clause, so the contractor did the obvious thing and asked the Delhi High Court to appoint an arbitrator. Simple, except it wasn’t. The clause named one city for the “venue” and the contract was performed

Last verified: June 2026 In October 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission settled charges against a former chief executive and chairman who had spent years on the board of a large US consumer-products company in the seat reserved for an independent director. On paper he was perfect for it: long retired from running anyone’s

Last verified: 16 June 2026 She had three offers on the table the week she graduated from a national law university in 2025: a litigation chamber in Delhi, an LPO role in Gurugram, and a vague promise from a cousin in Birmingham that “lawyers are in demand here, you should just come over.” The third

Last verified: 15 June 2026 Until April 2026, a small cosmetics maker in Ghaziabad could, on paper, be sent to prison for up to a year for a labelling or licensing slip under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. No fraud. No injured customer. Just a procedural default that the statute, drafted in a different

Last verified: 15 June 2026 A grocery shop in a small commercial lane had been let out in 1953. For seven decades the tenant’s family ran the business, paid rent, and stayed put. Then the landlord, whose title came through a 1999 will left by her father-in-law, asked them to leave. The tenant’s answer was

Last verified: 8 June 2026 On 27 May 2026, the Supreme Court of India wiped out a penalty of Rs 202 crore. It was the largest combination penalty in the country’s history, and the Competition Commission of India had imposed it on a global e-commerce acquirer over a deal it had structured in an Indian

Last verified: June 2026 In July 2024, just days after India switched on a brand-new law of evidence, a large multinational technology company walked into the Delhi High Court with what looked like an open-and-shut point. It had WhatsApp screenshots showing exactly when a legal document had, and had not, reached it. The screenshots were

In April 2024, a SEBI order put a number on a problem that most boards prefer not to name. A listed beverage company’s independent directors, sitting on the audit committee, had signed off on financial statements largely by accepting the managing director’s explanations rather than scrutinising the numbers themselves. The regulator’s reading was blunt: the committee had

Last verified: April 2026 Picture this. A bail order, granted by a High Court, gets cancelled by the Supreme Court. Not because the accused was a flight risk. Not because fresh evidence of guilt surfaced. Not because any bail condition was violated. The cancellation came because the bail application itself had withheld facts the court