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Background: Recovering loans has always posed significant challenges for financial institutions in India. While these institutions are entrusted with the responsibility of recouping bad loans...

Corporate Offences are broadly classified as civil and criminal offences. The offences committed by the directors and officers of a corporate body, which is criminal in nature, also fastens on the corporate body, being an independent legal entity, in the same manner and to the same extent as the perpetrators of the offence.

The aim of this essay is to provide an insight into how countries like United Kingdom and India have their extradition laws framed.

The Indian Penal Code of 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1973, and the Indian Evidence Act of 1872 formed the bedrock of India's criminal justice system.

This article is a brief outline of how and what happens once a crime takes place and how the investigation machinery leads the investigation under Cr.P.C and ultimately rests its case before the Judiciary...

Under Chapter XX-A, Section 498A of Indian Penal Code, any kind of violence or extortion against a woman by her husband or his relatives, is considered as "cruelty" towards her.

The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting ("MIB") reportedly directed the online video-sharing platform, YouTube to remove 45 videos from 10 channels hosted on its website on September 23, 2022...

The COVID 19 pandemic has pushed the economy towards the brink of collapse.

The private person who is permitted to conduct prosecution in the magistrates court can engage a counsel to do the needful in the Court in his behalf.

Pursuant to the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Vijay Kumar Ghai & Ors. v. The State of West Bengal & Ors, the Supreme Court emphasized on the fine line between breach of contract and cheating.

In the present case, the Allahabad High Court passed an order directing the Director of Narcotic Controls Bureau (NCB) to pay a sum of Rs. 5,00,000/- for wrongful confinement...

In Prabhakar Yeshwant Masram & Anr. v. Sou Tula Namdeorao Jaipurkar & Anr., 2026 INSC 724, the Supreme Court clarified the threshold for initiating proceedings under Section 340 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (“CrPC”) for alleged false statements made in judicial proceedings. The Court held that a mere finding that a party has made a “wrong statement” is insufficient to initiate criminal proceedings. There must be material indicating a deliberate falsehood, and the Court must additionally be satisfied that initiating an inquiry is “expedient in the interests of justice.”

Indian banks and their group entities will enter a stricter regulatory framework starting in January 2026 when the Reserve Bank of India implements its new digital banking and group governance and liquidity and payment security regulations.

Thus, these Writ Petitions were consolidated before the Division Bench of the High Court of Delhi.

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The history of handcuffs goes back to 400 BC when these were primarily used for controlling and enslaving prisoners of war.

While the term moratorium has not been defined under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 ("IBC"), it implies a period wherein no judicial proceedings for recovery, enforcement...