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This Blog is Written by Paiyyavula Ramya, 2nd Year, BA LLB. (Hons), NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Blog 10 | Edition IX Imagine owning 100 acres of land and giving it all away to poor people. Does this happen in today’s world? Not often. But on 18 April 1951, in Pochampally, in today's Telangana, it did. That gift began the Bhoodan movement. Seventy-five years have passed, and India is entering its 80th year of independence. So, this is a good time to ask: did the promises of Bhoodan reach the people, or did it fail? This blog looks at Bhoodan through the lens of social justice. It has five parts: why land was such a burning issue in Telangana, how Bhoodan began, which ideas of Mahatma Gandhi are behind it, whether it was a success or a failure, and what we can do to make it work better. Why Land Was a Burning Issue? In 1946, a peasant struggle was going on in Telangana. The demand was simple: land for those who till it. At that time, most of the land was held by landlord...

This Blog is Written by Sakshi Jagdishchandra Joshi, 5th Year, B.A.LLB, M.K.E.S College of Law, Malad, Mumbai. Blog 09 | Edition IX Introduction An underlying question in the India 2026 reform on investments in companies through the land border is whether the analysis of the regulations applicable to a foreign investor who has less control of an Indian Company should be identical to that of a foreign investor who has greater control. More broadly, the reform calls into question the strength of the screening that should be matched to the level of risk to be faced by particular investments. India made an effort to find a solution to that issue in 2020. Countries which have been restricting foreign investment over the years have had to play a balancing act between protecting the security of their states and opening up the economy. For making an FDI, the government required a prior approval before taking it, either from the organizations in the neighbouring countries on land or in the ca...

This Blog is Written by Yaditya Sandala, 4th Year, BA LLB (Hons.), Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur. Blog 08 | Edition IX One day, Yaditya and Pooja wanted to create a mini-project based around electronic waste and consumer awareness. They were interested in seeing how technologies are being used in our daily lives and how the legal system is reacting to this.  During their discussion Pooja noticed that her smartphone was having some issues with the battery. She took it to an authorized service center; however, she was told that she couldn’t replace the battery and had to replace the whole thing, which came at a large cost. This sparked Yaditya’s interest. They decided to research whether consumers actually had the freedom to repair their items. They found out that when you purchase an item, do you really have the right to repair it? They quickly realized that this isn’t just a problem with mobile phones but actually a wide-ranging topic looking at con...

This Blog is Written by Nehal Agarwal, 3rd Year, BBA LLB, Delhi Metropolitan Education. Blog 07 | Edition IX Introduction If adultery is no longer a crime in India, does that mean the law no longer recognises adultery's consequences? Adultery has traditionally been seen as a breach of trust, but the legal question goes beyond morality: should the state punish infidelity through criminal law? In Joseph Shine v. Union of India , the Supreme Court struck down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), decriminalising adultery. However, adultery continues to have consequences under law, especially in divorce proceedings. This raises a question: has Indian law struck the right balance between individual autonomy and marital responsibility? The Law Before Decriminalisation Before 2018, Section 497 IPC made sexual relationships involving a married woman without her husband's consent or connivance a crime. A man engaging in such a relationship could face imprisonment of up to fi...

This Blog is Written by Aman Jaiswal, 1st Year, BBA LLB, Prestige Institute of Management and Research (PIMR), Gwalior. Blog 06 | Edition IX 1. Introduction & Comparative Framework 1.1 The Paradigm Shift: Legal Transparency vs. Medical Opacity The Indian judicial system, despite historical challenges with case backlogs ("Justice delayed is justice denied"), has actively institutionalized structural mechanisms to ensure procedural transparency. Through the Bar Council of India (BCI), Supreme Court directives, and e-Courts integration, a litigant possesses statutory avenues to monitor their legal proceeding. A citizen can inspect court dockets, access interim orders online, consult advocate teams, and track precise hearing dates. In contrast, a profound systemic gap exists within clinical healthcare delivery. When an individual approaches a private clinic or hospital, they enter an informational vacuum. Patients pay repetitive consultation fees during periodic visits ev...

This Blog is Written by Amit Kumar, 5th Year, BA LLB, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Blog 05 | Edition IX The intellectual property right is a separate discipline, relatively new compared to traditional disciplines, and is continuously undergoing transformation by technological innovation. The foundation of IPR laws, especially copyright, is vested in the recognition and protection of human creativity. However, by the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter referred to as AI), which acted as a transformative force, revolutionizing various aspects of human life, including substituting human creativity. Human creativity is the foundation of copyright law, but with the emergence of AI, there has been a paradigm shift toward AI creativity that significantly challenges the fundamental notion of ‘human authorship’ and poses a rival to human creativity under copyright law. Whether AI Is a Legal Person? Authorship and ownership are two distinct concepts; ‘Author may be th...

This Blog is Written by Amith Vikram Gir, 3rd Year, L.L.B, Osmania University, Hyderabad. Blog 04 | Edition IX The Citizen’s “Right to Know and Obtain Information” The Right to Information Act, 2005, grants citizens a statutory right to request and access information from public authorities. It empowers citizens to hold the government accountable and demand operational transparency, public authorities cannot arbitrarily deny access or misapply Section 8 exemptions without reasonable justification. The Supreme Court has recognised Right to Information an Implicit Fundamental right of citizens. Right to Seek Information includes: Inspection of work, documents, records; Taking notes, extracts, or certified copies of documents or records; Taking certified samples of material Obtaining information in the form of diskettes, floppies, tapes, video cassettes or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such information is stored in a computer or in any other device. Th...

This Blog is Written by Aditi Utkarsha, 4th  Year, B.A LL.B (Hons.) Chanakya National Law University, Patna; & Priyasha Priyadarshni, 4th  Year, B.A LL.B (Hons.), Chanakya National Law University, Patna. Blog 02 | Edition IX Introduction Somewhere in the fine print of India's social security law sits a small, oddly specific number: three months. Section 60(4) of the Code on Social Security, 2020 , extends twelve weeks of maternity benefit to a woman who "legally adopts a child below the age of three months.  Adopt a child younger than that, and you get twelve weeks of paid maternity leave. Adopt a child a day older, and the law has nothing to say to you at all. It is the kind of clause most people would scroll past without a second thought until you notice that thousands of adoptions in India take longer than three months to even become legally final. At that point, the number stops looking like a technical detail and starts looking like a trapdoor. Hamsaanandini N...