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India’s Insolvency Landscape at a Crossroads: Supreme Court’s Re-Examination of the JSW–BPSL Case and What It Means for the IBC Framework

November 22, 2025November 22, 2025Aveek Banerjee

Summary India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), once celebrated for bringing certainty and speed to corporate restructuring, is now witnessing renewed turbulence. The Supreme Court’s decision to reopen its earlier order related to JSW Steel’s acquisition of Bhushan Power and Steel has revived debates on finality of resolution plans, judicial oversight, and investor confidence. This […]

Rights of Daughters over Properties in India: The New Supreme Court Ruling and the Recent Developments

December 16, 2023Aveek Banerjee

Daughters were never considered equal to sons in terms of their rights to their father’s property before 2005. Daughters, unlike sons, could only be treated as ‘members,’ not ‘coparceners’ (individuals who have a legal right to their ancestral property by birth). Members could not ask for partition or a share of the property, whereas coparceners […]

How Much Gold can be kept at home without documentation? Know the Government Rules and Tax Regulations

October 16, 2023Aveek Banerjee

Introduction Gold is much more than a metal for the Indians, it is an emotion for them. Buying gold is always auspicious for Indians in various forms like physical gold, gold bonds, digital gold and SGBs. Indians mainly purchase gold during festivals or marriage ceremonies. The love and fascination regarding this auspicious metal never cease. […]

Sexual Harassment at the Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013: New Guidelines Released

October 14, 2021October 14, 2021Aveek Banerjee

This Act is in consonance with the spirit of Article 21 of the Constitution which includes the right of a woman to dignity, life and liberty. This is one of the most recent legislation and was enacted to incorporate the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court. It provides for protection of women against sexual […]

PIL in the figure of ‘Personal Interest Litigation’ filed against a Karnataka based business: The Karnataka High Court Imposes a fine of Rs. 10 lakh

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021Aveek Banerjee

The Karnataka High Court on Monday imposed an estimated cost of Rs 10 lakh on a PIL applicant, a fish supplier, by suing a fish processing and oil processing company, over his dispute with the company over a business agreement. Acting bench Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum dismissed the application […]

Laws regarding Industrial Relations

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021Aveek Banerjee

The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 This is an important law dealing with the problems of industrial disputes, closures, closures, strikes, retrenchments, retrenchments, etc. Prior to this Act, the Trade Disputes Act, 1929 resolved industrial disputes. However, there were some defects in the Act that needed to be removed with the enactment of a new law […]

Laws dealing with wages, payment tenure and related issues

September 13, 2021September 13, 2021Aveek Banerjee

Payment of Wages Act, 1936 The Act came in the wake of gross injustices against employees in connection with the payment of salaries. There were many cases of harassment such as salaries being denied or delayed, illegal deductions, fines and more often than not kindly paid in cash. Therefore, legislation was enacted to regulate the […]

Positive Impact of the New Labor Laws on Business Ranking Techniques in India

September 1, 2021September 1, 2021Aveek Banerjee

The new labor codes go a long way to reflect the current economic structure and include more firms and subordinates and to make legal construction much easier, reducing the cost of the following firms. This was a need for an hour and will further our goal of facilitating business and increasing global competitiveness. Four […]

“Proposed Amendments to the Contract Labor (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970.”

August 30, 2021August 30, 2021Aveek Banerjee

Indian firms and industries depend a lot on contract operations. In fact, some of India’s largest private employers includes human resource workers and those in the business of providing or sending contract workers to their clients, in both industrial and commercial organizations. Contract workers are employees employed within or in connection with the work of […]

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