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TUSHAR RANJAN & ANSHU JAYKAR | On 19th June 2020, the Tamil Nadu police arrested P. Jayaraj and his son J. Fenix for keeping their shop open longer than permitted under the lockdown rules during COVID 19. Four days later they both were dead. Unfortunately, custodial deaths aren’t something new in India. The police routinely […]
PRANOY GOSWAMI | The COVID-19 pandemic has changed human lives galore. In consonance with this statement, the standstill which the entertainment industry has experienced might have sounded the death knell for conventional movie-making tropes. With a rapid boom in technological innovations, the demand for OTT (Over the Top) platforms has seen a manifold increase. Coupled […]
PUNEET DHAWAN | Force majeure has been underlined in Black’s Law Dictionary as “an event or effect that can be neither anticipated nor controlled. It is a contractual provision allocating the risk of loss if performance becomes impossible or impracticable, especially as a result of an event that the parties could not have anticipated or […]
TRISHA MISHRA | The Epidemic Disease Act 1897 (hereinafter referred as Act), was enacted by the British parliament to prevent the spread of Bubonic plague epidemic which had started to spread rapidly and resulted in large number of deaths. The same Act has been implemented by the Indian government yet again to contain the novel […]
SNEHA PALEKAR | The framework of Indian Copyright Act, 1957 (“ICA”) took a benevolent turn when The Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1994 (“AA of 1994”) birthed a new set of rights from Section 38 to 39A of the Act, over acoustic or visual presentation of creative works. Such rights were designed to vest in persons defined […]
PRANOY GOSWAMI | The turn of the decade calls for an intriguing set of changes and challenges ahead. The world’s largest democracy, India must take it’s ever teeming and expanding populace into account and look into the recent developments in the realm of gaming. The idea of consonance for fantasy games being a necessary enabler […]
NISHTHA KHERIA & VARUN VIKAS SRIVASTAV | The Delhi High Court in Deepti Kapur v. Kunal Julka in its decision, analyzed the admissibility of illegally gathered proof in a divorce proceeding, hence touching against the interface among the evidence in marital conflicts and the right to privacy. The genesis of the existing perplexity among admissibility of evidence […]
RISHABH JOSHI & CHHAVISHREE SOMANI | CAN DRAWING PUBLIC ATTENTION TO AN OFFENCE VIA SOCIAL MEDIA CONSTITUTE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT? The International Society for Krishna Consciousness or ISKCON, founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda in 1966, is the society which propagates devotion towards the Hindu deity Lord Krishna. Society has hundreds of temples, centers, and […]
SAKSHAM SRIVASTAVA | Recently, the Government of India implemented a ban on 59 Chinese apps labelling them as malicious. As per the press release of the Press Information Bureau, the Ministry of Electronics and IT took this step on the recommendations of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre. The Ministry […]
CHARMI VAISHNAV | A Criminal offence when committed, it includes Actus Reus and Mens Rea. Where Actus Reus means a physical act of a person and Mens Rea points out a guilty mind, both when united makes crime, either of these doesn’t make the crime as only a physical act of a person without an […]
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