By: Arun Raghuram Mahapatra

INTRODUCTION

Central Consumer Protection Authority (hereinafter ‘CCPA’) is the Central Authority that has been established under Section 10 of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 (‘Act’) to regulate issues about consumer rights violations, unfair trade practices, and other acts that are detrimental to the interests of the consumers. Apart from the power to initiate investigations, file complaints in consumer forums, and undertake research, the CCPA has also been bestowed with the power to issue necessary guidelines for the prevention of unfair trade practices. And recently, one such notice by the CCPA has issued all the hotels and

By: Harshit Joshi

INTRODUCTION

An appeal was brought before the Supreme Court in which both the Delhi High Court and the Punjab & Haryana High Court refused to have territorial jurisdiction over the dispute due to a difference of opinion and dismissed the appeals filed before them. The Supreme Court solved the conundrum concerning the appellate jurisdiction of the High Courts under Section 260A of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (herein after ‘Acts’) in its judgment dated 18 August 2022 in the case of Pr. Commissioner of Income Tax-I, Chandigarh v. M/s. ABC Papers Limited. Another question that the

Johnny Depp has been wrapped up in legal situations for quite some time now. Most recently, the Pirates of the Caribbean star was entangled in a (televised) six-week defamation case with his ex-wife, Amber Heard. ultimately, the jury’s verdict fell in Depp’s favour, as Heard was found guilty of three counts of defamation and now must pay her ex millions of dollars. While Depp has apparently closed the book on that situation, he’s now facing an assault-related lawsuit from a former colleague. And the accuser’s lawyer is speaking out ahead of the trial.

The plaintiff in this legal case

By: Anushka Satya

THE SCOURGE OF MONEY LAUNDERING AND THE URGENCY TO COMBAT

Post the interdependence of economies across the globe, with the seamless exchange of resources between sovereign borders, the menace of money laundering has become more pressing than ever. Statistics say that 2-5% of the global GDP, or US$ 800 billion – US$ 2 trillion is the estimated amount of money laundered globally in one year. To tackle this menace, the United Nations General Assembly in its Political Declaration in 1998 urged member nations to adopt legislation to mitigate money laundering.

India, which is no exception to this

By: Kartik Sharma

The creation of the unbiased Indian state was an unprecedented occasion in historical past. This nascent nation needed to be steered by means of the vagaries of threatening forces. A transformative imaginative and prescient encompassing a singular model of federalism was instituted as the premise of our Structure. The Union Authorities was vested with powers to kind, divide, and reorganize states as per the ever-changing wants underneath Article 3 of the Structure. As a consequence of this, a number of states had been reorganized and new states got here into existence all through post-independence historical past.

Essentially