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Deepfake technology is an emerging application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that enables the creation or manipulation of images, videos and audio to produce realistic representations of individuals. Although this technology has beneficial applications in entertainment, education, research and digital communication, its misuse has created serious legal and social concerns. One of the major concerns is the creation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and videos using women's faces or identities. Such misuse may violate women's dignity, privacy, personal autonomy and reputation, while also exposing them to humiliation, harassment, emotional distress and social discrimination. This study examines the relationship between deepfake technology and women's dignity through the perspective of feminist jurisprudence. It analyses relevant constitutional protections, provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, applicable intermediary rules and selected international legal instruments. The study also compares AI-generated deepfakes with traditional Photoshop-based image manipulation to understand their differences and the legal challenges associated with consent, authenticity, detection, investigation and content removal. The study highlights the importance of a gender-sensitive and victim-centred legal response. It identifies practical difficulties in applying existing laws, obtaining timely remedies and preventing the repeated circulation of harmful synthetic content. It recommends stronger implementation of existing legal protections, improved platform accountability, effective complaint mechanisms, better digital forensic support and increased public awareness. The study concludes that protecting women's dignity in the digital age requires a balanced approach that addresses harmful uses of AI while respecting fundamental rights and legitimate technological innovation.

This article examines how Indian law allocates intellectual property after an individual creator or proprietor dies, and asks whether succession rules preserve a fair relationship between present owners, future generations, and the public. Using doctrinal analysis of copyright, patent, trade mark, design, plant-variety and geographical-indication statutes, relevant Indian decisions, and international instruments, it distinguishes transmissible economic entitlements from personal, registered, and collectively held interests. The central claim is that inheritance does not itself create a new monopoly: it carries forward only the interest the deceased owned, subject to the original statutory term, public-interest limitations, and the formalities attached to each right. Indian copyright law provides the clearest succession framework, while other regimes rely more heavily on general property and registry rules. This unevenness increases title uncertainty, transaction costs, and unequal access to cultural and scientific works. The article proposes a modest stewardship model: clearer probate and registry procedures, accessible records of ownership and licensing, proportionate support for heirs, stronger safeguards for attribution and integrity, and reliable routes to use orphaned or unexploited works. Such measures can protect.

Banking fraud is no longer confined to conventional acts of misappropriation, forged instruments, or dishonest diversion of loan proceeds. The expansion of digital banking, complex corporate structures, cross-border transactions and technology-enabled payment systems has enlarged both the scale and the variety of risks faced by Indian banks. At the same time, the legal response to banking fraud is dispersed across banking regulation, criminal law, insolvency and debt-recovery mechanisms, securities and corporate regulation, anti-money-laundering law, information-technology law and regulatory directions issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). This article critically examines whether this multi-layered framework is capable of preventing fraud, identifying it at an early stage, protecting depositors and borrowers, recovering diverted assets and securing effective adjudication. The study adopts a doctrinal methodology and analyses legislation, delegated legislation, RBI directions, judicial decisions, academic literature and selected banking-fraud episodes discussed in the underlying dissertation. It places particular emphasis on the transition from a predominantly post-facto enforcement model to a risk-management model based on governance, internal controls, early detection, forensic investigation and coordinated reporting. The article also examines the significance of State Bank of India v. Rajesh Agarwal, which required observance of natural justice before classification of an account as fraudulent, and the subsequent RBI Fraud Risk Management Directions, 2024. The current regulatory position demonstrates a significant movement towards board-level accountability, time-bound natural-justice safeguards, specialised fraud-risk functions and technology-assisted detection. The article argues that the central challenge is not the complete absence of legal remedies but fragmentation, delayed investigation and recovery, uneven institutional capacity, weak information sharing and the difficulty of distinguishing genuine business failure from fraudulent conduct. It proposes a coordinated framework built around interoperable financial intelligence, specialist investigation and prosecution, faster asset-tracing and recovery, stronger governance and audit controls, specialised adjudicatory capacity, and proportionate safeguards for persons affected by fraud classification. The objective is to strengthen deterrence without converting ordinary commercial default into criminality.

Social media has become an important part of communication, public discussion and democratic participation in India. At the same time, the rapid growth of digital platforms has created legal and constitutional concerns relating to misinformation, hate speech, online harassment, content removal and privacy. This paper examines social-media regulation from the perspective of Articles 14, 19 and 21 of the Constitution of India. It studies the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, and selected decisions of the Supreme Court concerning online expression, privacy and internet access. The study follows a doctrinal and analytical approach based on constitutional provisions, legislation, case law and scholarly literature. It also presents a brief comparison with regulatory approaches in the European Union, the United States and the United Kingdom. The paper finds that regulation is necessary in the digital environment, but regulatory measures should remain transparent, lawful, proportionate and consistent with fundamental rights. It recommends stronger safeguards for privacy, clearer procedures for content removal, greater platform transparency and effective grievance-redressal mechanisms.

The Indian examination system, long considered a neutral adjudicator of merit, has in recent years become a prominent site of constitutional controversy. The repeated question-paper leaks in critical examinations like the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG), which determines the real admittance to higher education and the discharge of distributed, digitally organised youth movements such as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) jointly disclose a system under tension. This research takes up a socio-legal examination of the crossing between educational imbalance, examination wrongdoing, negligence and youth deployment in India. It locates these types of advancement within the constitutional framework regarding the article 14 which states the right to equality, article 21 which the right to life and personal liberty alongside article 21A which gives the right to education. Considering the NEET-UG 2024 court cases, the Public Examinations Act of 2024 and the 2026 protests against the education minister demanding his resignation. This research paper explains that exam fraud and coaching traps are serious violations of constitutional promises. They destroy fair access to education beyond basic administrative mistakes and decay true and equal rights of education. Additionally, it argues that the youth's retaliation to this mistreatment and misuse, conveyed via digital mobilisation and street protests, should be viewed as a valid form of dissent protected by the Constitution of India, confined only by narrow restrictions established under Indian law. This research concludes with scheme and legal advice which is directed at bringing different ideas into agreement or harmony.

Trade secrets represent a crucial type of commercially valuable information, specially in employment contexts where employees might access sensitive business strategies, technical methods, client databases, and proprietary knowledge. The unauthorized acquisition, utilization, or revelation of such information brings up issues regarding the range of legal protection, the degree of employee responsibilities, and the situations where misappropriation could incur civil or criminal liabilities. This article explores the legal system regulating employee theft of trade secrets by comparing the law operating in India, the United States, and the European Union. Utilizing a doctrinal and comparative approach, it examines pertinent laws, court rulings, international agreements, and legal doctrines regulating the safeguarding of confidential business information. The research examines India's dependence on contractual commitments and legal doctrines, the statutory structure of the United States under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016, and the European Union's unified civil-protection system established by Directive (EU) 2016/943. It also analyses the difference between civil and criminal responsibility and the connection between trade-secret safeguarding and employee movement. The comparative analysis shows that, even though the jurisdictions vary in their legislative frameworks and available remedies, liability relies on the type of information, the context of its acquisition or use, and the legal stipulations pertinent to the specific jurisdiction. The document emphasizes the necessity of differentiating between the improper use of legally safeguarded confidential information and the legitimate utilization of general professional expertise and abilities gained while employed.

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (IBC) completed its ten years in 2026. This paper evaluates the decade along five axes: the Code's resolution rate and recovery record; its principal structural and practical difficulties; patterns of misuse; the judge-made devices of reverse and project-wise insolvency in real estate; and the homebuyer jurisprudence that produced them. It argues that the headline claim of a 58 per cent 'rescue' rate conflates three different outcomes, that only about one in five closed processes ends in an approved plan, and that the Code's value-preservation record is stronger than its speed or recovery-against-claims record. It further argues that the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Act 2026 is best read as Parliament's reversal of several judicial gloss-lines (discretionary admission, statutory first-charge claims), while the project-wise model for real estate still lacks a firm statutory footing.

The quick spread of aircraft systems ("UAS") into commerce, agriculture, logistics and public safety has moved faster than the administrative systems that were used before to manage manned aviation. This Article analyses how international, regional and national groups that manage aviation like the International Civil Aviation Organization, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration among others have tried to find a way to make UAS work while keeping it safe. The Article denotes the legal base from the Chicago Convention, the European Unions risk-based categories, U.S. Rules under Part 107 safety research on managing drone traffic and examines how people work with control systems. It says that administrative control of UAS has partly found the right balance. It ends with ideas for a system that uses risk-based categories, special safety plans for drone traffic rules that make control systems easier to use and agreements between countries.