INDIAN LEGAL WING

By: Priyanka, LL.M. Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar Introduction The Income Tax Act,1961 governeddirect taxation system. It served the country faithfully through the era of liberalisation and globalisation. However, decades of amendments and provisos had rendered it one of the most complex pieces of legislation causing students, practitioners and even seasoned judges to dread and puzzle over it.That era is now formally over.On 1st April 2026, the Income Tax Act,

By- Manshwi Anand Abstract Astroturfed digital campaigns in India’s contemporary film industry blurs the line between authentic audience support and covert promotion which eventually misleads the consumers leading to distortion of competition. Through manipulation of online visibility and perceived popularity, they undermine informed choice and fair market conditions, exposing gaps in existing consumer protection and competition frameworks in addressing algorithm-driven promo

The rapid inclusion of the large language models and particularly the automated decision-making system, has now changed how the big corporate firms will determine and regulate the prices in the market. Nowadays, the firms use the pricing algorithms, which are trained to monitor the market and adjust the prices in real time, without any type of human interaction for the same. While these practices amount to unfair trade practices and ultimatelykeep the customers at a disadvant

intersection between artificial intelligence (AI), digital governance, and administrative law is changing and suggests that the regulation of AI is a core administrative law problem. The practice of state power is no longer concentrated on visible or easily accountable mechanisms as the administration is becoming more and more dismembered into algorithm-driven regimes. Rather, it functions on the basis of data streams, automated decision-making, and black-box technological p

By -T. Jeba Vasanth BA.LLB. (HONS) ABSTRACT: India’s Four Labour Codes, implemented in November 2025, represent a landmark reform aimed at consolidating and rationalising the country’s fragmented labour law regime. By merging 29 central laws into four comprehensive codes on wages, industrial relations, social security, and occupational safety the reform seeks to enhance ease of doing business while expanding the scope of worker protection. This paper critically

India's gig economy is expanding rapidly due to digital advancements and new technological developments that are reshaping how people work. As the gig workforce continues to grow and contribute to India's economy, many of these workers are still working outside traditional models of employer-employee, leaving them with little or no access to basic labour laws that protect themincluding minimum wage, social security, paid time off, and job security. Given these issues, the Gov

A powerful legal tool to shield kids from teenage sexual abuse and exploitation was the “Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act 2012 (POCSO).” In actuality though the law has also started to have an impact on a different class of situations consensual relationships between teenagers. Even voluntary relationships between teenagers are frequently termed as serious sexual offenses because the statute views everyone under the age of eighteen as legally incapable of givin

This article critically examines how Indian obscenity law constrains the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech and expression, especially in the context of evolving social norms and digital media. It interrogates whether criminal liability for obscenity should arise even in the absence of a culpable mens rea, and how courts ought to draw the line between vulgarity and punishable obscenity. Tracing the doctrinal journey from the Hicklin test to the contemporary

AKSHAT DHODI, STUDENT, MAHARAJA AGARSEN INSTEAD OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES ABSTRACT The Constitution of India is a revolutionary law that was meant to promote liberty, equality and justice to the existence of a varied democratic community. The key principles of this system are the Fundamental Rights that are included in Part III of the Constitution which functions as not only a protection against state arbitrage but also be used to facilitate promotion of human dignity. The inter

Srishti Jain, LLB student, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi Abstract This article looks at how digital surveillance in India has grown rapidly in recent years and the problems this creates for accountability. The government now has many tools to monitor citizens, from central monitoring systems to facial recognition and AI-based predictive policing. While these are said to be needed for national security and public order, they raise serious questions about who watches the