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Family Law

The Working Wife Doctrine: Does Income Alone Defeat a Claim for Maintenance?

Rethinking Maintenance, Financial Independence and Economic Equality in Indian Matrimonial Law

Prajwal DwivediLegal Associate

August 24, 2026· 12 min read

Employment Law

The Ultimate Guide to POSH Act Compliance: From Zero to Advanced Legal Framework

The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (commonly referred to as the PoSH Act), is a l...

A Comprehensive Guide to Section 138 of the NI Act: From Legal Notice to Supreme Court Jurisprudence

Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act, 1881, stands at the unique intersection of civil liability and criminal culpability. Whi...

Navigating the Quashing of FIRs under Section 528 of the BNSS (2023)

The criminal justice system in India operates on the fundamental premise that the process of law must not become an instrument of harassment...

Abhilash Sontake & Associates

August 22, 2026

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Criminal Law

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023: A Paradigm Shift in Indian Criminal Jurisprudence

Effective July 1, 2024, the Indian penal landscape underwent its most radical overhaul since 1860. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, ...

Abhilash Sontake & Associates

April 18, 2026

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Criminal Litigation

Anticipatory Bail under the BNSS Regime: Jurisprudential Scrutiny of Section 482

The remedy of anticipatory bail—an extraordinary mechanism shielding citizens from unwarranted custodial duress—has transitioned from Sectio...

Valuing the Invisible: Homemakers' Contributions in Matrimonial Disputes

Unlike multiple Western jurisdictions that operate on a 'Community Property' model—where assets acquired during a marriage are divided equal...

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023: Architecting Corporate Compliance

Following years of legislative deliberation and the foundational mandate established in 'K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) 10 SCC 1' ...

Intellectual Property Enforcement in the Epoch of Generative AI

The ingestion of massive, copyrighted datasets to train Large Language Models (LLMs) and latent diffusion models (like Midjourney or Stable ...

Somasale Anjali Mohan Rao

February 22, 2026

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Constitutional Law

Writ Jurisdiction under Article 226: Expanding Horizons of Judicial Review

The architectural design of the Indian Constitution vests the High Courts with extraordinary remedial powers under Article 226. Unlike Artic...

RERA vs. IBC: The Unending Conundrum for Homebuyers

The legislative amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016, specifically including real estate allottees as 'Financial Cred...

Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act: The Strict Mandate of Pre-Institution Mediation

The Commercial Courts Act, 2015, was enacted to ensure the speedy disposal of high-value commercial disputes, thereby improving India's glob...

Prajwal Dwivedi

December 05, 2025

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Insights & Analysis.

The Working Wife Doctrine: Does Income Alone Defeat a Claim for Maintenance?

The Ultimate Guide to POSH Act Compliance: From Zero to Advanced Legal Framework

A Comprehensive Guide to Section 138 of the NI Act: From Legal Notice to Supreme Court Jurisprudence

Navigating the Quashing of FIRs under Section 528 of the BNSS (2023)

The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023: A Paradigm Shift in Indian Criminal Jurisprudence

Anticipatory Bail under the BNSS Regime: Jurisprudential Scrutiny of Section 482

Valuing the Invisible: Homemakers' Contributions in Matrimonial Disputes

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023: Architecting Corporate Compliance

Intellectual Property Enforcement in the Epoch of Generative AI

Writ Jurisdiction under Article 226: Expanding Horizons of Judicial Review

RERA vs. IBC: The Unending Conundrum for Homebuyers

Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act: The Strict Mandate of Pre-Institution Mediation

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