Chintan Shah

In the quiet intimacy of our daily lives, there is perhaps no object more trusted, more inextricably bound to our personal narrative, than the smartphone. It rests on our nightstands as we sleep, it captures the first steps of our children, it holds the fragile threads of our financial security, and it acts as the repository for our most private thoughts and digital whispers. We have accepted a tacit social contract with the manufacturers of these devices: we trade a certain amount of data...

The NCLAT has clarified that disputed contractual debts in insolvency cannot be recovered through summary proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, reaffirming the limits of liquidator powers.

A court in Bargarh, Odisha, has imposed the death penalty in a BNS death penalty case involving the rape and murder of a minor, marking one of the first major applications of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita alongside POCSO.